«The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural,.and Live Stock Journal in the State.





 





 





VOL. CXL. No. 26. ;

Whole Number 3649.





little income from the tomato crop.



In round numbers” the total is pro-

bably not far from $4,000,000. It is diffi-

cult to learn the total acreage in the

state since the state and federal statis-

tics do not separate the tomato from oth-

er truck products, but the amount has

been variously estimated and the average

seems to be somewhere around 20,000

acres. Thé total gardening area of the

state, according to the statistics taken by

the federal government in 1909, was near-

ly 100,000 acres, not including potatoes.

Since tomatoes are grown in practically

every garden, and in many sections they

are grown as a specialty to supply city

trade, canning factories, etc., it seems

safe to assume that a fifth or more of

the area devoted to garden crops is oc-

cupied by tomato plants and as the re—

ceipts per acre would come not far from

$200 the estimate of $4,000,000 is near

the amount of income to our farmers

from this crop.



The Market a Big Factor.



An important item in the development

of tomato growing in any section, is the

market. “’here it is easy to dispose of

all the crop at a price that leaves the

grower a fair to geod margin after ex-

penses have been paid, there it proves

an easy matter to interest the commu-

nity in the business; but without such an

outlet a general adoption of the tomato

as a crop to depend upon for an income

is not to be expected. However, there is

scarcely a community where the right

kind of a. man could not make good with

the crop, so much depending upon human

skill and intelligence in its growing and

marketing. But as a result of the need

of a readily available market. the im-

portant tomato growing communities are

within reach of the larger cities where

the fresh grown fruits are quickly placed

in the hands of dealers and peddlers. or

else they may be found about points

Where canning establishments, or pre-

serve manufactories are located. It fre-

quently happens that such concerns lo-

cate in sections furnishing tomatoes for

city trade, and when the stock becomes

so abundant that prices fall below a level

where growers can afford to draw to the

city and sell, the manufacturers take the

surplus at prices that give a small mar-

gin over the cost of production and de-

livery. Such is the case in some of the

tomato growing districts about the city

of Detroit.



There are, no doubt, many localities

where a very satisfactory market for to-

matoes could be developed, providing the

right kind of a business man took hold

of the proposition and pushed it. This

is especially true in resort districts. A

majority of those who go on outings and

make their homes at the many attractive

lakes of the state, are able to pay good

priceS, and are glad to do so, providing

a high class of goods is offered. Hence

if one is so located and is able to grow

a high grade of early tomatoes, he is

certain to find the venture profitable.



Even Farmers Buy.



Even farmers themselves are getting to

be large purchasers of tomatoes and oth-

er garden crops. In the small towns

over the state it is surprising to find that

a very large part of the garden product

sold over the counters 0f the grocery

stores goes out to the farm homes. The

men engaged in general farming have

their time and that of their help so com—

pletely occupied with the regular duties

of the farm that in many cases they do

not care to attend to the garden, and so

the family either buys garden crops else-

where or goes without; but when the

good housewife of such a home comes to

town and sees the well grown vegetables

and fruits displayed before the grocery

stores, she usually buys. This demand

together with that from the residents of





FARMERS of Michigan secure a neat





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913.





Tomato Cultu1:e__in Michigan





the small town makes a fair local market

for'a few tomato growers in every com-

munity and the person who is ambitious

to grow this crop should look about to

determine the probable home demand be—

fore giving the matter up or moving else-

where to get a better market.

Home Canning Increases Consumption.

There is still another way in which

tomato crops are sold that promises to

increase the and that is





amount grown,





able economic importance now, the fu-





ture is certain to show a larger income

from its growth. But there is another

element that is working toward that

same end, and. that is the ability of





growers to produce the crop at a. less



cost' on account of better equipment and

improved machinery. '

Improved Equlpment.



The building of suitable glass structures



for the growing of plants is one means





 





 





Tomato Transplanter at Work—Machine





the home-canning method of getting

hem to the consumer. By this means

it is possible to grow the crop at any

point where the soil is suited, after which

the tomatoes are canned, and held until

they can be taken to the city and sold.

The superiority of these goods over those

usually canned at the darge factories,

makes it possible for a careful man to

work up a trade that offers very satis-





 





 





and Crew Can Set 25,000 Plants a Day.





in the hands of growers of many sec-

tions through which the cost of produc-

tion is reduced. The inside view of the

greenhouse published On this page shows

tomato plants growing under conditions

where they can be well protected and de-

veloped. This structure will house 100,-

000 plants at a time, it being 24x100 feet

in size. By the use of cold frames out-

side, the owner is able to grow fully 200,-





 





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The Greenhouse is Used to Start the Tomato Plant

GrOWn In this HouSe Last Spring.





factory returns, and one that can usually

be relied upon so long as the goods are

kept up to a high standard.



Thus it will be seen from the increasing

number of ways that the’ tomato crop is

cared for and the widening demand that

results from the more general use of it,

that, while the plant is one of consider-





0ver 200,000 Plants were





000 plants in a Single season. Such

houses as this puts in the hands of the

man in charge, control of conditions, and

if the man is acquainted with the plant’s

requirements he will be able to get them

in better shape than where they are left

to the accidents of the weather. Better

plants mean larger crops, and larger





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crops are always more economically

grown. Then, too, these greenhouses en-

able the owner to use his help to much

better advantage, as the men‘s work will

not be interfered with by stormy weath-

er. Another economical advantage is

that the plants can usually be started

earlier, which enables the crop to be

marketed when better prices prevail.

The Transplanter.



The tomato planter is also a boon to

the large grower. A picture of one of

these machines is shown in operation. By

its use the cost and labor of transplant-

ing the young tomatoes in the field are

greatly reduced. A good man will set

about 3,000 plants a day by hand. \Vith

the above machine three men and a

team will put in 25,000 plants a day and

it is safe to say that the men will be

less weary after following the planter for

the day than they would be after setting

the plants by hand from morning till





night.



The illustration gives the reader an

idea of how the machine works. The

field is marked out with a corn marker.





the same as for planting corn, except

that the rows are made a little wider

apart. The driver of the team hitched to

the planter, guides the horses so the ma-

chine strides one of these marks. A plow‘

on the machine cuts a furrow as deep

as wanted along a mark. Behind the

plow are two wings that draw the dirt

back into the furrow and bill it up.

Between the plow and the coveling wings

is a small space of a foot or more where

the plants are, inserted by the tWO men

seated low on the rear of the machine.





First one will drop a plant at a cross

mark and then the other at the next

mark. when the first man will take the





tthird mark, and so on, .each man drop-

ping a plant at alternate hills across the

field. This makes it necessary for one

man to drop one plant about every eight

or ten feet, depending upon the distance

the cross rows are. apart, and this task

can be, done, after the men become ac-

cuStomed to the work. with ease as fast

as an ordinary team will walk. The bar-

rel seen on the machine in the picture is

filled with water in which fertilizer has

been dissolved. By the aid of a valve

control placed where it can be tripped

M7 a touch of the foot of one of the men

drOpping plants, a little of the water

containing the fertilizer is run into the

furrow where the plant is established.

\\'hen the soil is properly prepared the

planter will do better work than men can

do by hand. There are fewer of the

plants that fail to grow, the dirt being

packed about them so well by the wings

that it is almost impossible to pull them

out without breaking the stem.

Spraying Has Became Necessary.



Another piece of machinery that is

helping the tomato growers is the spray-

ing rig. Sprayers equipped as for spray-

ing potatoes is adapted to service in the

tomato patch, and now that there is

danger of blight and other troubles in

many places the use of the sprayer will

become common. By the use of the horse

machine the spraying is done so rapidly

that the work does not add materially to

the cost of production, which cost is per-

haps more than compensated for in the

better crop that grows even where no

bacterial diseases or other troubles affect

the plants and where these trOubles are

present the saving may amount to the

entire crop.



These conSiderations lead us to the

conclusion that the tomato crop in Mich-

igan is important, so important that

when troubles arise either in the mar-

keting of the product, or in its growing,

those who have the care of the industry

upon them go about to correct the diffi-

culty, and to this end they have thus far

been successful. We shall hope that

some time in the future when statistics
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cucumsaa BEETL’ES.





 





Some day in early summer when the

cucumber vines have become nicely start-

ed we are surprised to find them beset

by the enemy, a countless host of yellow

and black striped beetles. \Vhether they

have dropped from the sky or risen out

of the earth or merely come into Qxist-

once from nowhere in particular does not





The striped cucumber beetle is not a

bug, but is what its name implies. It is

a beetle, therefore it is a. chewing insect.

It masticates its food and is not slow in

doing it either. There is no Fletcherl‘sm

about it. The creature comes with an

appetite and wastes no time in satisfying

or trying to satisfy its hunger.



They may not be numerous enough to

eat up the plants, but in that case they

have another means of mischief, though

slow in its action. The female beetles

crawl down about the stem of the plant

where it comes through the ground. Here

the eggs are deposited. Soon the larvae





batch and feed upon the rootlets. If

they are plentiful the plant does not

thrive as it should and may die. The dry

weather is blamed for the loss. But





many such plants could have endured the

drouth if they could have had the roots

that went to feed this ravenous tribe.



After several weeks of mischief these

worms become full-grown. They are then

nearly half an inch long, whitish, with six

legs at the front end and one at the

posterior extremity. They pupate in the

soil and shortly come forth mature in-

sects, the time from the egg to the adult

being about two months.



The beetle paSses the winter under

leaves, boards or other rubbish. The

time being spent in 'fasting, it comes out

in the spring with a good appetite, ex—

cellent digestion, and maybe a clear con-

science. Anyhow, it joins with all of its

relatives near at hand and makes a raid

on such cucumbers, melons and squaslies

us are within reach.



“'hen the beetle comes it is necessary

that something be done and that quickly.

The arsenates will kill insects of this

kind, but they are too slow. By the time

the beetle is ready to die the

been eaten. Fortunately the beetle has

a dislike for vile odors. Kerosene is not

tolerated, neither is carbolic acid. Either

of these mixed with ashes, road dust,

plaster or something of a similar texture,

will drive the beetle away in disgust.

Tobacco dust is another remedy. Sprinkle

it on the hills and see the insects fly!

So they pick up their earthlybelongings

and migrate to your neighbor's, where

they expect no worse treatment, at least.

.-\s long as the odor stays the bugs won't.

but they may come back when it is gone,

for which reason it ought to be renewed

at short intervals. If there are a few





‘ hills only, good results are reported from





using moth bulls, one or two in a. hill on

a clean shell or small dish.



In localities where the beetle is a reg-

ular summer boarder, preventives are re-

sorted to. These are frames covered with

wire or plant cloth. The frames may be

made of wire, barrel hoops or boards,

the object being to cover the vines. yet

leave room for them to grow. Board

frames covered over the top with gauze

are sometimes used. When open at the

ends these will do quite well, but if they

are enclosed they keep out light and air,

which causes the vines to grow tall and

splndling.



The fall clean-up is also to be recom-





mended. If the harbors are destroyed

many of the beetles will perish before

another spring. This will help some,





though enough of the pests will remain

to make things interesting.

Oakland Co. F. D. WELLS.





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OAKLAND COUNTY HORT. MEETING.





 





The next meeting will be held on July



at Mr; R. J. Coryell's, one-half mile

west of Birmingham, commencing at 10.30

a. in. standard time. In the forenoon

Mr. J. P. Halstead, of Farmlngton. speaks

on "Conserving Moistures." In afternoon

Prof. H. J. Eustace, of M A. C.. will

discuss "Corn Crops on 3 Fruit Farm.”

Conveyances will be at the Birmingham

D, U. R. waiting-room at 10:00 a. m.—

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alfalfa,





matter. The fact remains that they are

here and they must be dealt with'

promptly.





leaf has.





FARM NOTES. * ?





 





Seeding sandy Soll to Alfalfa.



I have a field of sandy soil (sand sub-

soil) that we have been trying for three

years to get seeded to clover. I now

have about one-third of a crop. If I

should turn this under by July 4, add one

ton of lime per acre, and barrow each

week until September 1 and then seed to

would I be liable to get a good

stand? Can you make any suggestions?



Mecosta, Co. B. H. F.



The fact that it has been found im-

possible to get clover to grow on this

soil would indicate that it needs lime,

as a great many soils of this character

in Michigan undoubtedly do. If this clo-

ver is turned under when reaches a

maximum growth and lime is applied, it

would seem reasonable that a good stand

of alfalfa could be secured by midsummer

sowing, provided the soil or seed is well

inoculated and an application of mineral

fertilizer made it needed. It would not.

however, in the writer's opinion, be well

to delay seeding until

tember. \Vould prefer sowing the latter

part of July or the first part of August

at any time when the moisture conditions

are right to insure the quick germination

of the seed and rapid growth of the

young plants. The ground, however,

should be well firmed down and a good

seed bed prepared. There would seem to

be only one possible difficulty and that is

that the beneficial effects of the lime are

not wholly apparent the first season un-

der ordinary conditions. However, with

liberal application such as is proposed,

we believe that a fairly good inoculation

of the plant might be expected.





Millet After Clover Hay.





I wish to plow up a piece of clover

stubble for millet.

cut the bay so as to get the millet in in

time and how much seed should I sow to

the acre?



\Vayne Co. SUBSCRIBER.





If millet is to bc sown after clover hay

is cut, the clover should be cut as quick-

ly as practicable and the millet seeded

as quickly as it is possible to get the

seed bed in condition. If there is a rea-

sonably good stand of clover, however.

it would, in the writer’s opinion, be more

profitable to cut it early and take the

chance of getting a second crop of clover

than to plow and sow the ground to nil]-

let, which would necessitate securing a

much better yield to make the crop equal-

ly profitable, to say nothing of the fact

that the millet will draw heavily on the

soil fertility, while the clover should leave

the soil in better condition for future

crops. About one-half bushel of common

millet or Hungarian grass should be sown

per acre.





Grasses for Drained Marsh Land.



I wish to know if land that is covered

with water from two to three feet deep

the year round would grow grass of any

kind if it were drained? This was for-

merly covered with brush and was burn-

ed out 12 or 15 years ago. The bottom

of this pond is a black sandy loam, no

muck, as it has been burned out, with a

subsoil of clay and gravel. If this will

grow grass I wish to know what is the

best seed to sow and how to fit the soil.



Hillsdale Co. C. V. B.





Undoubtedly if this soil were drained

it would grow almost any kind of grass

adapted to it, such as red-top, and per-

haps timothy and alsike clover if well

drained and prepared. The first step, of

course, would be to thoroughly drain the

land, then prepare a good seed bed and

sow the grass either in the spring or

midsummer.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





The Oat Crop.



Oats are exceedingly short. They are

not over eight or ten inches high and

lie-re it is the 20th day of June. Of

course, it has been a backward season.

\Ve can‘t tell yet whether they are going

to be a. failure or not. This afternoon,

June 20, we have had a splendid min and

it may bring on the out crop so that the

plants will be of good height. A farmer,

of course, always worries more than nec-

essary abOut the quality of his crops. Of

course, farming is, I will admit, very

much of a. speculation. The farmer can

do the very best that he knows how and

that anybody knows how, and if the sea-

son ls against him he cannot produce

crops that he would like to. In other

words, he is up against conditions all the

while over which he has no control, and

he must simply take the best that he can

get.



It was my privilege Just a few days ago

to make a trip Into the eastern part of

the state. and I found conditions there

just about the same as they are here. It

has been dry and cold over the entire

state. Oats are no better over in the

thumb and around Detroit than they are





the first of Sep-.





T‘l'hat time should I.





here, Corn is‘ no' farther advanced. As- ._





one sometimes says: “There Is some

satisfaction in knowing that everybody

is treated alike in this," and yet it 15

poor satisfaction to a man who wants to

get ahead





Sugar Beets.



We succeeded in getting our small

acreage of sugar beets all thinned June

14. I think this is.as early as we ever

got our sugar beets thinned.

ltave thinned them even before this had

we had a uniform stand, but it was so dry

on the clay spots that they didn't come

Up at first, undiwe had to wait until the

low parts and Indy parts of th’e‘field

were rather larger thsnthey ought to ‘be

in order to have the‘b‘eots large enough





to weed on the city. We have goti'm-‘sg





all cultivated, finished the thinning, and





now this rain that is coming new will '





put them in good condition.

encouraged.





Glover and Alfalfa Seedings.



One of the worst. results of this

spring’s dry cold weather is noticeable on

the new seedings of clover and alfalfa, It

is a complaint all over the neighborhood,

that the clover which is almost invariably

seeded in the wheat in this vicinity is

very small and not very thick. One has

to look very carefully to find any clover

at all. There are only little puny plants.

Of course, this rain will help matters, and

'yet the wheat is so large and maturing

so fast that it will need all of this mois-

ture and can ill afford to give' any of it

to the clover plant. As I have stated

before, this year we did not seed our clo—

ver the same way that we usually do be—

cauSe we did not have the seed in time,

and sowed it later and narrowed the

wheat both ways to drag it in. I was in—

clined to lay the small clover at this time

largely to this fact, but other people who

have SOWn the cover in the old way are

making the same complaint, and so it

must be the cold Weather. I am inclined

to think that the cold weather has done

more damage than the dry weather. I

do not believe but what crops would have

been farther along even with no more

moisture had the weather been warmer.





i feel quite





MARKETING THE HAY CROP.



\X'liile this season‘s hay crop does not

promise to be as abundant, at least in

Michigan, as that of last your, it is likely

to be more valuable as measured by the

price which it ,will bring upon the mar-

ket. Thus, there is every incentive to not

only secure it in the best possible condi-

tion, but to have it in shape to put on

the market at the most favorable time.

\l’liere liay must be stacked this work

should be'done in such a manner as to

best insure its keeping qualities, and as

soon as it is thoroughly cured out it

should be baled and stored under cover

until it is desired to market it.



Also where the barn .room is needed

for the housing of the later crops it will

be found profitable to bale the hay on ac-

count of the greatly reduced space re«

quired for its storage. The great diffi-

culty is that it is generally impossible to

get liay balers to do this work at the

time when it should be done for most

profitable results. This difficulty can be

obviated, however, in any section where

hay is grown on a commercial scale by

some farmer purchasing a hay press and

doing the work for himself and neighbors,

or a club of farmers purchasing one and

doing their own baling In a co-operatlve

way.



Modern improvements in hay preSSes

have been as marked as in other agricul-

tural machinery, and these machines are

now available with the power plant at-

tached. as well as the old styles which

are horse or engine driven. It is not too

early to begin investigating the hay

press proposition where there is a like«

llllOOd that the purchase of such a ma—

chine would be a profitable investment.

as it undoubtedly would be in many lo-

calities throughout -the state. Those in-

terested in the proposition should secure

catalogs and descriptive literature of the





improved types of preSSes before pur~





chasing.

W’ayne Co.





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At Once. a few men who are'hustlers.

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Good salary guaranteed and ‘ sirpensos

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in farmlrg and delights in-

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MAINTENANCE OF sou. FERTILITY.





 





BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.



The zeal of some concerns exploiting

the sale and use of commercial fertilizers

has led them to decry the value of the

ordinary barnyard manures. This is not

so much true at the present time as it

was a few years ago when the acquaint-

ance with the effects and the values of

the commercial fertilizers were not so

generally understood as at the present

time. We presume that this rivalry be-

tween the animal manures and the so-

called commercial or artificial fertilizers

grew up because of the early prejudice

against the use of commercial fertilizers.

It is even now the argument of many

farmers who have not used commercial

fertilizers to any extent that the use of

artificial manures speedily robs the soil

of its basic fertility or its permanent

productive capacity.



Do Commercial Fertilizers Rob the Soil?



There has been some ground for the

creation of this opinion for, as is usually

the case, where public opinion becomes

fixed, there is some real ground for this

opinion. Many a. man has learned to his

regret that an opinion which prevails

among a large number of people, inexpe—

rienced and unscientific though they may

be, still is founded upon some element of

truth and fact, somewhere. So with

commercial fertilizers we see the opinion

which many farmers had, that the use of

commercial fertilizers robbed the soil of

its basic fertility and thus lowered its

permanent productive capacity, was not

founded on mere fancy or myth. The

real element of truth, however, shows

that it has not been the use of commer-

cial fertilizers which has formed the basis

f0r this opinion but rather the abuse of

commercial fertilizers.





Tankage Does Not Rob the Soil.



To dispel the illusion which any of our

readers may have in this direction, let

us observe of just what commercial fer-

tilizer constituents are composed. Sup-

pose we take, for example, tankage, which

is a constituent part of many so-called

complete fertilizers. We find tankage to

be made up of the waste products of the

slaughter houses, animal in their struc-

ture and hence derived directly front the

vegetable matter of the soil which feeds

upon and comes at first hand from the

soil itself. A commercial fertilizer con-

sisting in part of tankage, then, is but

a way removed from the elemental con-

stituents of the soil itself. No one would

argue that the proper use of the soil con-

stituents upon another soil should rob the

soil upon which it is placed of any of its

fundamental fertilizing principles. There—

fore, it is simple logic to show and for us

to realize that the addition of tankage,

comp05ed, as we have stated, of the

waste animal products, to the soil cannot

be a. detriment to that soil.





Potash Cannot Rob the Soil.



Likewise potaSh is a common constitu-

ent of commercial fertilizers, sometimes

in one form. sometimes in another. In

its most ideal form as carbonate of pot-

ash it is a very important constituent of

wood ashes; No-w, wood ashes are de-

rived directly from the soil and repre-

sent particularly the amount of mineral

matter which has been taken by trees

from the soil upon which those trees

have grown. Therefore, the addition of

wood ashes could not possibly be con-

strued in any way as depleting the per—

manent fertility capacity of a soil. Pot-

ash, then, is a legitimate natural ingre-

dient of commercial fertilizers because

it is one of the soil constituents itself.



Can Phosphoric Acid Rob the Soil?



Suppose we take new for consideration

phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid is a

very essential constituent of plants, par-

ticularly so of the vitalistic or reproduc—

tive portions of the plant. If we study

scientific agriculture we know that phos-

phoric acid has no secondary relationship

in agriculture. If plants contain phos-

phoric acid the very nature and proper-

ties of the product prove conchisively

that this phosphoric acid must come from

the soil. Bones contain phosphoric acid

in very considerable quantities derived

through the processof plant and animal

growth from the soil itself. Is it very

reasonable to suppose that the return of

the phosphOric acid to the ,soil could in

any way reduce the permanent produc-

tive capacity of that soil?



How the AntagoniSm to Fertilizer

Started.



These conditions being apparent, we

may then well ask ourselves what was

the source of the opinion So common

among farmers, that the use of commer-

cial fertilizers robbed the soil of its basic

fertility.





 





 

 





   





We have stated that in our judgment,

it has been the abuse of commercial fer-

tilizers. We- have known farmers to al-

low the barnyard manures to go abso-

lutely to waste and drive to town, bring-

ing back a load of commercial fertilizer

for use on the soil. There are some soils

that will warrant the use of commercial

fertilizers without the use at the same

time of barnyard manures, but there are

not many soils which will show an in-

creased permanent and immediate pro-

ductive capacity where commercial fer—

tilizers alone are used. If commercial

fertilizers are used alone on ordinary

soils the effect is to lower the amount of

organic matter in that soil and the low-

ering of the organic matter disturbs the

nutritive equilibrium of that soil which

cannot help being noticed in the succeed-

ing crops. If, however, commercial fer-

tilizers are used in conjunction with

barnyard manures there is absolutely no

possibility of this conjunctive use robbing

the soil of any of its basic fertility, and

the permanent productive capacity of

that soil as well as its immediate produc-

tive capacity will be actually built up in—

stead of being lowered.



What to Use when Barnyard Manure is

Not Available.



There are some farms where barnyard

manure is not accessible. When com-

mercial fertilizers are used on such soils

they should be combined with organic

manures such as tankage, dried blood,

cottonseed mealand the turning under

of the leguminous crop. There are many

expedients which may be followed to se-

cure the proper amount of organic con-

stituents in the soil but one should, how-

ever, not make the mistake of using coni-

mercial fertilizers to the exclusion of or-

ganic manures, and where commercial

fertilizers are not abus‘ed their influence

on the soil fertility cannot be otherwise

than to its decided best interests.





 





 





KEEP CORN GROWING.





 





Inferior corn crops are often the result

of lack of attention during the growing

seasmi. The corn should be kept grow-

ing from the time it is out of the ground

until it is ready to harvest. If it be-

comes stunted at an important stage in

its development, no matter how favorable

later conditions may be the crop will be

much inferior to what it otherwise would

have been, had it been kept growing. The

same results are noticed in animal life.





‘THE M'ICHIGAN-FA-‘RNIER





 





Profitable crop of wheat on A. A. C. Co.

Fertilizers puts more money in your pocket



and makes more business for us. That is the

. , reason why our factories never shut down.

We have spent fifty years and a great deal of money

to find out how to make the right‘kind of fertilizers

for wheat and all other crops, and the farmer cannot

go wrong when using





. A°A'C' FERTILIZERS





While the supply lasts we will furnish this Season special

compositions for wheat. Banner Dissolved Bone; 34% Avail-

able Pliosphoric Acid; and our Banner Bone Fertilizer with

Potash, 20% Available Phosphoric Acid, 4% Actual Potash,

24% Total Phosphoric Acid.





The best is none too good. About one thousand tons of

surface soil is cultivated to the acre, audit is hard for some to

understand why an application of a few hundred pounds of

good fertilizer will make such a wonderful increase in the crop,

but that is science. Our fertilizers are quickly soluble and are

so compounded that they thoroughly enrich the soil on the

same principle as a few drops of blueing will color a large

amount of water.





 





 





 





   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

 





 





 





 





 

 





If all the farmers knew A. A. C. Co. Fertilizers as

they ought to know them not enough could be man-

ufactured to supply the demand.



Write us and we will tell you more about fertil—

izers and how to use them. We want agents for un-

occupied territory under our consignment contract.





The American Agricultural Chemical Co.

Depto 1) Detroit Sales Department, Detroit. Mich.





 

   

   

 

 





 





 





those which have been stunted at an

early age, never attaining a normal.

growth.



Few crops need more moisture than





corn and for this reason it is Well to





take precautions that will mean a supply.





in case of a dry season. Frequent cul—

tivation will accomplish this and make a

supply almost independent of rain. A

thin soil mulch on top prevents evapora-

tion, so that moisture from the lower soil





when brought to the surface, will be-

come available to the corn instead of

reaching the surface and escaping into





space. \Vater is brought up by capillary

action after the soil has settled.





To illustrate the point a flask of gas-

oline with a lamp wick extending out the

top, might be used. The gasoline will be

attracted to the top of the wick by the.

same capillary force. Here it evaporates

into space and in a short time the bottle

will be empty. If the top of the bottle

is covered tightly, the gasoline will reach

the top of the wick, but it will not

escape.



It is the same with soil moisture. It is

drawn from lower depths and if the soil

mulch is not maintained, it escapes into

the air. The mulch accomplished the

same purpose as the cork in the bottle,

prevents evaporation by keeping the cap-

illary tubes broken. The water is drawn

to within an inch or two of the surface

where it stops and is held until made use

of by the corn crop, or for that matter

whatever is growing in the soil. This is

why frequent cultivation in a dry season

largely overcomes the effect of the

drought, keeps the corn growing and

means a. more productive crop at harvest

time in the fall.



When weeds-are allowed to grow, they

not only rob the corn of a. large amount

of plant nutrients, but consume a large

part of the moisture needed by the crop.

This makes it important that they be

kept down from the first. When there is

not enough food and moisture for both

the weeds and the corn, the weeds will

win in the battle and get the most. They

are stronger because they had to fight

for their existence and can make a de-

sirable showing under unfavorable con-

ditions. >





Pennsylvania. L. J. HAYNES.





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THE LIVE STOCK SITUATION.





 





The situation in regard to the numbers

of cattle. sheep and hogs raised on 5the

farms? in the United States has very ma-

terially changed in the last few years.

We have been producing all the meat

needed for consumption in our own coun-

try and some for exportation, but now

yve are nearing the point where we will

nOt be looking abroad for a market for

any of our cattle at least. The home de-

mand is catching up with the supply.



For several years we have been urging

farmers to raise more of the calves 0n

the farms, and produce more cattle to

sell for meat, but they have not heeded

the warning and have sold veal calves

and have neglected to raise cattle for

beef. “'0 are aware that the prices for

veal calves have been tempting, but they

should have lookcd beyond the present

day and saved, at least the best heifer

calves, which would have made cows

from which cattle could have been rais—

ed. The farmers of the country are now

in the ridiculous position of not having

cows enough from which it would be

possible to raise the needed number of

beef cattle that will be rcquired to meet

the demand for home consumption. Be-

fore long we ’will realiZe that money that

should have ~been kept in circulation

anion: our own people, is being sent out

of the country to buy beef to supply the

demands for that class of meat.



In some respects, farmers have just

reasons for complaining, because they

have been compelled to work on the. short

end of the evencr the most of the time.

During the few years following the clos'e

of thc (‘ivil war, the live stock business

was developed to good proportions and

farmers were making satisfactory profits

on the stock raised on their farms. But

by the lime lhings were going along

nicely the government allowed monied

men in this and other countries to stock

the public lands witlrboth cattle and

sheep and ruise stock in competition with

farmers who owncd improved farms. In

a short period of time the ranchers were

sending stuck forward to our markets in

such numbers that prices dropped so low

that f'12mcrs could not make any profit

from the cattle and sheep raised on the

farms. and there was a readjustment in

farm management. Farmers felt the pinch

of competition from the ranches very

keenly and practically quit the

raising business.



As the ranches were being broken up

by actual settlers on the public lands,

and the number of cattle and Sheep were

diminishing to the point where all raised

in [the country would be needed at home

farmers have been cautious and slow to

take up stock raising again. The habit

of depending on the great west for the

needed supply seems to have ‘become

fixed, or they have been afraid the gov-

ernment would have some game to play

that would place them to a disadvantage.

The game is now on. l'ndcr the tariff

bill now bri‘ore Congress the duty on

farm animals is put at so low a rate that

the farmcrs are to be brought into direct

competition, with but little protection.

with the great live stock countries of

Australia and South America. ,



0.” course, the farmer's interests are

not to be considered. The manufacturers

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to suit the monicd interests of the coun-

try and the farmers will have to submit,

for a time, at least.



As far as the farmers are concerned

the solution of the situation is plain and

can be easily understood. There are

many living on farms remote from the

large markets who can yet raise stock to

a good advantage and profit by raising

early maturing animals. By using sires

of the beef breeds that are of the right

sort,.it is possible to produce steers that

will weigh from eight to ten hundred

pounds when from a year to a year and

a half of age, and the income will be lib-

eral and the profits good. There is still

hope for those who will go at it in a.

busmess sort of a way and produce ani-

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of the days when, by the cheap feeds'

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Wayne Co. N. A. CLAPP.





SHEARING SHEEP.





 





I haven’t kept any sheep on the farm

for over 20 years until this past winter.

Last year I had a large amount of clover

hay that was injured by the wet weather

so that it was practically unsalablc. and

then I didn’t like to sell clover hay any-

way, and so I conceived the idea of buy-

ing a small flock of sheep to help eat up

some of this, and therefore I purchased

23 ewes and a buck. They are large Ox-

ford sheep and they did their duty in

getting rid of some of this hay and they

have also done their duty this spring in

keeping down the grass in the. horse

pasture till We wanted to turn the horses

out. ITé‘uaIly it grows up so high that

:1 lot of it is wasted. but we used this as

a lambing field for the Sheep, which was

fairly close to the barn, and they have





done their duty in keeping the grass

down. They are good eaters, that is

sure.





Very few sheep have been kept in this

country for the past 20 years, the dairy

cows have taken the place of the sheep.

1 don't know as anybody cmild glvh a.

good logical reason why this is so, only

things get fashionahle in a community

and other things get out of fashion, and





that’s the. way with sheep raising. The

consequence is that there was nobody

around to shear sheep. “'hcn I was a.





young man I was what might be called

:1 professitmal sheep shearer. This is the

only m'mual labor that I ever (lid for

anybody elSe. All the rest has been done

for myself. But I have a brother-in-law

who came from the sheep growing sec-

iions of Ohio, and was a master at this

business. He taught me to shear, and

I went with him two or three seasons

around ‘the neighborhood shearing sheep.



Of course, since my days of shearing

sheep the sheep-shearing machines or

clippers have come into use, but I have

not paid any attention to it. I never saw

any uf‘ed. There being no professional

shearer in this section I made up my

mind that we would get one of these

sheep-shearing machines and try it out.

and so I purchased one. None of my

farm men ever sheared sheep, but Imade

up my mind that we would shear our own





Sheep. I caught and sheared the first

sheep. It came pretty handy. They are

mighty big sheep and hard to handle,





but I found that my former experience in

shearing sheep came in play nicely as I

could handle the sheep and keep them

in a comfortable position better than the

average man who has had little experi-

ence. It certainly was comical to see

the men try to handle some of the sheep.

They did the beSt they could, but they

were awkward. The sheep seemed to

realize (hat they were awkward and some-

times took advantage. but we finally got

them sheared. There is one thing certain

about the clippers, and that is that a

novice, a man who has had no experi-

ence in shearing sheep, can do a. better

job with the clippers than he can with

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cutting the sheep. I have seen people

with common sheep shears haggle them

awfully, until they got used to it. Some

people never learn but what they do,

but with the clippers there is very little

danger. And so we got our sheep shear-

ing done with novices at the art. that is,

men with no former experience in shear-

ing, and got a. pretty good job done, too.

' COLON C. LIL‘LIE.





 





 





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The first thing, of course. to consider

in dairy farming is the raising of crops

for the cows. That is the first business

of the dairy farmer. VVhatl crops we shall

ram “£th an important question. The

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Mosh? cow on a farm in Michigan





._ 7,,.,_;,W_have all the good corn silage

. qndgall the clover hay she will eat up'





clean every day she is kept in the sta-

ble. Why? Because we can produce

more food per acre with corn than any

other plant, and because it is easily pro-

duced in a succulent form.



Again, we cannot farm successfully un-

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falfa you should grow. I am not prepared

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wonderful plant, red clover, entirely and

grow nothing but alfalfa. But I am pre-

pared to say we should grow some a1-

falfa on every dairy farm. I do not be-

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will not produce alfalfa suceessfully if we

go at it right to get it started. We

should have this legume.



If we don’t know how to grow them, the

first thing we should do is to learn how.

We must have them if We want to make

farming a permanent success. That‘ is

the foundation. They are good feeds for

the dairy cow, rich in protein. Red clo-

ver is just about a balanced ration for

the cow, one pound of protein to six

pounds of carbohydrates. If it wasn’t so

bulky you would not have to raise any-

thing else to make a balanced ration for

a cow giving milk.



But because. of the bulkiness of these

leguminous crops we must produce some

other feeds and to this end our attention

is turned 'to the corn crop. \Ve can raise

more cow feed per acre in Indian corn

than any other known plant. “'e can

save it in the silo and preserve its suc-





culency and feed it to the dairy cow

through the cold winter, which has a

wonderful effect in stimulating the flow

of milk.





Now we have got to pin our faith upon

clover, alfalfa, and corn silage, but‘ to

get the most out of the dairy cows we

have got to have something besides these

bulky feeds, that is, a concentrated ra-

tion. This ration should be richer in

protein than corn silage because it is to

supplement that feed which has a ration

of one to '12. \Ve can raise the concen—

trated feed on our farms if We want to,

probably by growing soy beans, but sure-

ly by growing Canada field peas. Mix the

peas with oats so that‘ the oat'plant will

hold up the pea. vine to enable you to

harvest with a. binder. Do not make hay

out of them but ripen and thresh them,

grind the grain and feed it to the dairy

cow. By this plan you can have upon

your own farm a complete balanced ra-

tion, balanced so far as food is concern—

ed and so far as the bulky part of the

ration is concerned. Of course, it rests

with the dairy farmer as a. business man

to find out whether he can raise this

mixture of concentrated protein cheaper

than he can buyhit, or not. It is a ques-

tion to be determined with a lead pencil

and a paper pad. 11' you can buy gluten

feed or‘ cottonseed meal or distillersv’

grains or any of the numerous by-pro-

ducts which we have in this country, and

get your pound of digestible protein

cheaper than you can grow it in the field,

it is only a business proposition to do it.

But We can raise them on our own farms

and that is what :we have farms for; to

raise feed fog, the dairy Cow. It is a

question that we ought all to consider

carefully.



There is another thing. It is necessary

on the dairy farm to have bedding as

well as feed. I don't see how you can

get along without one crop on the dairy

farm which is raised primarily to bed the

cows, to make them comfortable and

keep them clean. I don’t know but you

will laugh when I say I can afford to

raise wheat, and yet I believe that as a.

dairy farmer I can afford to grow wheat

as one crop in the rotation because I

wantthe straw for bedding. My friends,

I have got a seven-year average of 30





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bushels of _wheat to the acre without

plowing for the wheat. We put the corn

into the silo, cultivate the ground and

sow to wheat. I believe there is profit

in growing wheat under that system even

in the state of Michigan, and it gives me

bedding that I would have to go outside

of the farm and pay $10 or $12 a ton for.

If you raise a large area of peas and oats

you can use that straw for bedding. It

is, however, almost too valuable for bed-

ding because pea and oat straw, if the

peas are harvested just when they ought

to be, properly taken care of, is valuable

forage for the young growing stock es-

pecially. Pea and oat strarw makes a

valuable forage and you cannot afford. as

a business man, to simply use it for bed-

ding. It ought first to be run through

the manger: The young stock ought to

have a chance to eat practically all of

this, as it is rich in protein. We never

have been able to raise enough oats and

peas to provide us with the necessary

bedding. and So we have to put into the

rotation a. crop of wheat.





LOSS OF BUTTER-FAT IN CHURNING.





 





“7e use a small barrel churn but find

that a good deal of fat is left in the but-

termilk. XVould we get a more complete

gathering of the butter-fat if we used a.

larger churn? \Ve have about 25 lbs. of

butter-fat a Week.



Jackson Co. A. H. P.



If your churn is too small for the

amount of cream you churn you cannot

get exhaustive churning, neither will the

butter come as quickly as in a larger

churn. The churning, of course, is brought

about by the concussion or the battering

of the cream against the wall of the

churn. It ought not to be over one-third

full in order to have the quick breaking

of the globules of butter-fat and ex-

haustive churning as well. But inex-

hauStlve churning might come from oth-

er causes than having the churn too full.

If your cream is too cold the probability

is that you cannot get exhaustive churn-

ing, that is, it takes much longer to

churn, and if your cream is too hot you

will not get exhaustive chrning. In the

neighborhood of 60 degrees is about the

right temperature in order to get ex-

haustive churning and then not have the

churn too full of cream so as to get

proper concussion.





PROLONG THE L‘ACTATION PERIOD

AND FEED WELL WHEN

COWS ARE DRY.





 





For many years most of our dairy in-

structors have taught that the milk of

any cow is practically constant, and that

it cannot be affected to any extent as to

its component parts by the feed consum-

ed. \Ve have shown that the condition of

the cow at time of freshening is an all-

important factor for confideration. Any

man who will unduly shorten the lacta—

tion period of his cows in order to force

them dry to fatten before freshening may

well be considered an enemy of the breed

and of the short-time test; while the man

who, after an exhaustive lactation period

puts his cows into condition for freshen-

ing is to be commended. \\'e have large-

ly given up following the teachings of

nature. In a natural condition herbivor—

ous animals give birth to their young in

the spring at about the time the grass

will furnish plentiful sustenance; and it

is not so long ago that farmer-dairymen,

even in the dairy sections, tried to bring

their co'ws through the winter with the

least expenditure for feed. The expres-

sion “spring poor" deScribed the condi-

tion of the animals. _



A fleshy condition was rightly asso-

ciated with parturient apoplexy or milk

fever, and consequently as something to

be avoided. It was even taught that to

keep the cows in rather a thin condition

insur,ed better and stronger calves. Milk

fever was indeed a dread disease; its vic—

tims were always the best cows in the





herd. YVere they the best becauSe when

dry they had a tendency to take on

flesh, and so be better prepared for the





next lactation period? I think so. The

air treatment ,has banished the terrors of

milk-fever. and has given to the breed-

ers 0f dairy cattle all the advantages to

be derived from properly caring for their

cows while dry. If our short-time test

has resulted in but the one thing of

teaching the importance of having dairy

cows in strong, healthy, moderately fleshy

condition at freshening, it has added mil-

lions to the wealth of the country.



The above are words of M. H. Gardner

who has charge of the advanced registry

of the Holstein-Friesian association, and

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The New York Cornell station has been

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Although the food consumed was, on

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that suffer, more or less, during warm

weather. Incubator chicks are more in-

clined to sit in bunches than others. ‘Vhen

a large number of small chicks crowd

themselves together, some are almost sure

to be smothered. Crowding together

spoils the plumage and it also retards

their growth. A stunted chick is almost

worthless for any practical purpose.



Don’t neglect to 'feed the hens during

summer. Of course,





' to Swarm,





they can find some.

food, such as bugs and green stuff, but





they need some grain—not as much as

in winter but enough to balance their

ration. Some corn or wheat each morn-

ing helps to keep the hens in good con—

dition, so that when moulting time comes

they can better endure the extra strain

on their vitality and thus be prepared to

begin laying earlier than they otherwise

would. When they begin to molt I begin

to feed twice a day regularly. I fill some

vessels with skim-milk for them every

day, as this helps to make feathers, but

remember it will not take the place of

water. It saves time as well as labor to

have the yards where the fowls can have

access to a small brook or shallow trough.

If a trough is used it should be so ar-

ranged that it can be easily cleaned.





One pOuItry keeper in a town not far

from here, who keeps about a thousand

laying hens, has his yards all fitted with

shallow concrete troughs supplied with

running water from a sort of force pump.

His hens are kept housed and yarded

summer and winter. Yards are not very

large but they are kept as clean as pos-

sible and plenty of disinfectants are used

both in yards and houses.





The owner sets out thousands of cab-

bages every year, which are used as green

food for his poultry. He also buys a

large quantity of cabbage every year,

late in the season, for winter. 'He caters

to the fancy trade, shipping eggs to one

of the large cities.



Ohio. ANNA W. GALLIGHER.





HOW I DISCOURAGE SWARMING.





 





There are several conditions upon which





the issuing of swarms hinge. The first

and most important factor is a present

honey flow; another is a multitude of

bees. ExcesSive heat and a crowded hive

are also incentives and will hasten the

exodus. Now in order to retard, or dis-

courage, swarming we must meet these





conditions. The method that I have been

practicing is to furnish each

bees an extra hive of empty combs. That

is, at the approach of swarming time,

or a Week or two after the section boxes

have been placed on top of the hive

proper, I slip an extra hive body of

empty combs under each hive and Close

the upper entrance, compelling the bees

to take possession of the extra set of

combs. 'This gives a double brood nest

for the queen to supply with eggs.





The plan has proven, with me.

only a partial success. About one-half of

the colonies swarm notwithstanding. But

nevertheless the plan is a good one, my

average yield exceeding any other pre—

viously tried method. ‘I might say that

the colonies which had no thought of

swarming stored the most surplus honey,

one colony reaching 180 le., but with re-

gard to those which did warm the

swarms were necessarily extra large ones

on account of the double brood nest, and

of course issued a few weeks later but

gave excellent resultS. \Vhen a prime

swarm issues, if the colony is strong and

circumstances favorable, a second swarm

may be expected a week or ten days

later. If the queen cannot accompany

them the bees will continue the attempt

sometimescvery day. some-

times not so often. But when a young

queen'emergcs, then the old one is dis—

posed of.



It is Well

keep our





understood that if we can

colonies working in a, normal

condition, without swarming, all,througli

the season, the best results will be ob-

tained, This happy state of affairs seems

impossible, however. Most bee—keepers

want at leaSt some swarms to make up

for winter losses, even if they do not

care to have a large number. It is a.

very difficult thing to prevent all swarm-

ing, but not so very difficult to prevent

each colony from swarming more than

once. Swarming can be prevented in a.

great measure by the free use of the

honey extractor, but somehow, even in

this case, a colony that has been pre-

vented from carrying out the instincts of

nature, althOugh it may do well for a.

time, soon gets out of balance and there-

after works in a sluggish fashion.

beginner should not strive to more than

double his colonies any year. Try to





.keep all strong. Feeding for winter, ex-





cept in extremely poor seasons, will not

then be needed.





New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.





 





 





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OFFICERS OF TH E STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARM E R8' CLU BS.





President—Jets. N. McBride, Burton.



Vice-President—C. B. Scully, Almont.



Secretary-Treasurer—Mrs. C. P. John-

son, Metamora.



Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Wm. T.

McConnell, Owosso.



Directors—C. P. Johnson, Metamora;

H. W. Chamberlain, White Lake; Wm.

T. Hill, Carson City; Jerry Spaulding,

Belding; R. Robb, Mason; J. F. Rei-

man, Flint.



Address all communications relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. C.

P. Johnson, Metamora, Mich.





Associational Motto:

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.





 





 





Associational Sentiment:

The farmer, he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





 





 





Discuss Important Topics.——Thursday,

June 5, was an unusually busy time

among the members of the Burton Farm-

ers’ Club. But those who availed them-

selves, of the opportunity of attending

felt themselves very well repaid in the





hearty hospitality of our hostess and in

the entertaining as well as instructive

program. Mr. M. L. Peterson, as chair—

man pro tem, opened the meeting and all

joined in singing "America.” Rev. J. P.

Cooper. of ()wosso, read a portion of

Scripture and Rev. Kunsman, of Burton.

Offered prayer. Mrs. George Rush read

Several interesting current events of the

past month. “\Vhere shall we invest

our surplus money, in banks, lands, or

home comforts?" Mrs. Hammond very

ably handled this broad subject. She

has always desired to enjoy the freedom

of many broad acres with all the modern

conveniences and machinery that they

may be well kept. Then she would have

all the practical modern conveniences in

the home that the home maker may not

be worn out. She would have some mon—

ey in the bank for the many emergencies

that come our way. Then she would not

forget that “The earth and the fullness

thereof belongs to the Lord,” and that

we owe a tenth of our income to His

work. “Is the Farmers’ Club of benefit

to the surrounding community?” The in-

fluence of every good organization, wheth-

er the organization be Sunday school,

church, Grange or Farmers’ Club, is felt

in its community. “Are rural sanitary

c0nditions improving?” Most certainly.

The farmer is making ditches and put-

ting jn tile drains, thus leaving no stag-

nant water to breed Ilics, mosquitoes and

disease. He is taking better care of his

stables and yards. The housewife has

learned to take care of the refuse from

the kitchen, and with her screened

porches and her gasoline or oil stoves,

she has almost eliminated the fly from

the premises.



The Young People and the Farm.—The

Norvell Farmers’ Club met at the home

of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gillitte in Shar-

on, with an attendance of about 25. L.

D. Watkins cited some interesting events

leading up to the organization of the Club

in February 24, 1882. Previous to that

time a few feeders of live stock met oc-

casionally in the council rooms of the

People’s Bank of Manchester, and talked

successes and failures and whatever was

of interest to them. This continued for

some time, then the interest began to

decreaSe. David Rose, state senator at

the time, then invited them, with their

families, to his house where dinner was

served. They were next invited to the

home of Mr. \Vatkins. Soon after this

he was requested to write a constitution

and by-laws, which he (lid, and at Mr.

Halladay’s suggeStion the Norvell Farm-

ers’ Club was finally organized. The opin-

ion of Mr. 'Watkins is that no organiza-

tion aside from churches has been and

is of so much benefit to the best classes

of people as the Farmers’ Clubs. Roll

call was well responded to by quotations

and Mrs. Pierce gave a recitation and

Miss Elma Holmes gave a select reading.

The question for discussion, “How shall

we keep the young people on the farm?”

was opened by Mr. C. 1’. Holmes. In his

remarks he said: “I do not want to

keep all the young people on the farm.

The city could not be maintained with-

out the pure new blood from the country.

\Vhen parents do not stay and there is

not the love for the farm and country in





their hearts, how can it be instilled in

the hearts of the children and their chil-

dren be kept there. The farm home





should be made attractive and the many

advantages pointed out to the children.

As it is necessary at present for the

young people to finish their education in

the city it is necessary also to have love

for farm and country born in the hearts.

Mr. Halladay agrees with the leader, not

all young people should remain. and he

thinks the desire for accumulation is the

attraction of the city: Legislation is

somewhat to blame for it is more for the

consumer than for the producer. Mr.

Watkins cannot see any attraction in the

city to tempt anyone. Mr. Mount says

a farmer cannot be made out of a me-

chanic and Mr. Gillette feels each must

follow his own desires. Mr. Pierce says

they should be made their partners and

in this way interest created.





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CURRENT COMMENT.





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The fiftieth anniversary

of the Battle of Gettys-

burg will be fittingly

celebrated on the his-

battleficld by the surviving vet-

crans who participated in the conflict,

on July 1—2-3. They, and they only, of

the present generation of American peo—

ple are capable of a full appreciation of

the decisive event which they are about

to celebrate, when so many loyal men of

both North and South gave their lives

for a principle, and when the fate of the

greatest internal conflict which ever

shook the Structure of a great, modern

and progressive nation to its very foun-

dation was practically decided. It is well

for the rout of us, who owe such a meas-

ure of our present blessings to their noble

work, to refresh our memories and sup-

plemcnt our knowledge with regard to

that important event.



Historians include the Battle of Get-

tysburg among the limited number, only

about fifteen in all, of decisive battles

which have greatly influenced the world‘s

history. It was a long and strenuously

fought battle, in which the issue was in

doubt until the afternoon of the third

day, when some of the attacking Confed—

crate force, after two hours of artillery

fire, charged the I'nion position on the

crest of Cemetery Ridge, sweeping up the

blope with a division of 15,000 men, a few

of whom swarmed over the breastworks.

Had they been able to hold their ground,

a different chapter would undoubtedly

have been written into our history, but

the Union lines held steady, the remnant

of the attacking division fell back and

tlicsouthern army was defeated. The

sad part of the story lies in the fact that

of the 88,000 Union troops engaged, more

than one man in four went down, either

killed or wounded, while of the Confeder-

atc army of 75.000 men, nearly one-third

met the same fate.



It is impossible for a layman to armre-





The Gettysburg

Anniversary.





toric





ciatc, much less describe, such a. battle

scene. Only the participants can, do it

justice. But we can appreciate the beau-





tiful sentiment embodied in this anni—

versary of the battle, when the surviving

participants of both armies will unite in

a brotherly and sympathetic celebration

of the event, all animosities forgotten, all

differences buried with the dead on the

historic battlefield.



But it will be a changed battlefield

which will be viewed by the survivors on

this Occasion. Its vast extent of some

twenty-five square miles is traversed by

well-kept highways by which the visit-

ors may reach the historic spots which

were the scenes of the most strenuous

conflict, where monuments and tablets

mark the sites‘ of interest in this re-

markable battlefield. But the spot which

would inSpIre in any visitor ,the deepest

emotion is the quiet, peaceful. yet beau-

tiful national cemetery where lie the

thousands of named and nameless dead





 





T HE I {Mi-c Hie A N ,~ FA RM E R





who'lost their lives in the ,awful carnage

of Gettysburg, but left a heritageof peace

and plenty to their posterity. Here stands

a' great national monument, ‘within a.

great semi-circle 'of‘ graves. ,Where 'Lin-' ‘

coin stood to deliver that. immortal speech

.which will live .as long as. the- English4

language is) spoken, with his closing

words engraved upon it.



\i'ell may we, in the celebration of our

national holiday, give a thought to this

historic battle ground and the brave he-

roes who are buried there, as well as the

surviving veterans who have so lately

celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the

conflict of which it was the scene of

action.





With 'the advent of the





5 Celebrating the general educational prop-





“Fourth.” “safe and

celebration of the

there has been





in the number of





aganda for a.

sane”



great national holiday,

a marked decrease

fatalities reported each year. Nor have

the joys of childhood which revolve

around this momentous occasion been ap—

preciably diminished. There is still plenty

of noise and stir, and still too many ac-

cidents which result in more or less ser—

ious injuries. While 'no one would seek

to rob Young America of the undoubted

pleasures of a Fourth of July celebration,

or the patriotic lesson which it holds for

them, all should exercise reasonable care

in providing the accessories and super-





vision in their use to reduce the ac-

companying danger to a minimum. And

in all cases where even minor injuries





are suffered, the family doctor should be

at once consulted in order to minimize

the danger from the deadly tetanus or





septic infection. ,

For the older people as well as the

children, the modern tendency toward





quiet neighborhood celebrations, with per—

haps a picnic dinner at some convenient

lake, and with a ball game as an added

attraction, and possibly a modest display

of fireworks in the evening, is one which

will make the celebration of the Fourth

not only safer and saner, but a source of

really greater enjoyment.





The question of cur-





The NewCurrency rency and banking





Reform Bill. reform legislation has

been given the seri-



ous consideration of law makers and

stateFmen for many years. It was the





subject of an exhaustive investigation by

the monetary commission established by

Congress, which investigation was the

basis of the so-called Aldrich plan pro-

viding for a single central reserve b:1nk

association to be controlled by a. commit-

tee of bankers, but which'plan failed of

sufficient endorsement to be made the

basis of a currency reform law. While

they directly repudiated the Aldrich plan,

the democratic leaders have nevertheless

conceded the deSirnbility of currency and

banking reform legislation and have

drafted a new currency reform bill which

will be designated the federal reserve act,‘

the details of which have already been

made public and which will be formally

placed before Congress at an early date.



in place of a single federal reserve

bank association this bill provides for

the cfi'tablishment of 15 regional reserve

districts, the association of national

.bzlllkS in each district to be known as

the federal reserve bank, the minimum

capital stock of any of which banks is

placcd at $5,000,000. Inétead of having

these regional banks controlled by acom-

mittee of bankers, this new bill provides

for central control through a board of

nine members, three to be chosen by the

banks, three members of the cabinet and

three to be appointed by the President

and confirmed by the Senate. Under this

plan it is proposed to issue federal re-

serve notes in amount not to exceed

$500,000,000, the issue to be Secured by

government or state bonds or approved

commercial paper. The headquarters of

this federal reserve board is to be situ-

ated in “’ashington.



Other changes in the general banking

laws proposed by this bill are the giving

of authority to country banks to loan

money on farm lands and. a provision

which will permit banks of $1,000,000 or

more capital to establish branch banks

in foreign countries. The federal reserve

banks will be made national depositories,

thus superseding national banks in this

respect.



The powers of the board of control are

broad, extending to the requiring of one

reserve association to loan money to an-

other, thus providing for the making of

reserve capital more liquid so that it can

be easily diverted to points where need-

ed. The board is also given‘authority~ to

fix rates of interest on such loans. -



The disposition of the earnings of these





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regional reserve banks as provided i‘n'the "





bill, is as .follows: The shareholders are

entitled to- receive an annual dividend of

five per cent on the paid in capital. One-

half of the'fnet earnings is to be placed

in. a surplus fund until same‘ aggregates

20 per cent of thefpai-d-in capital. sled the

remaining one-half is to be turned into

the United States treasury, as are“ all of

the earningS'after the above payments

are provided for.



This bill thus briefly described repre-

sents the ideas of the democratic leaders

on needed currency reform legislation.





As will be observed from the provisions ..





outlined this would place the reserve

banks directly under government control,

giving the President broad powers in ov-

ercoming the objections which have been

made to «the central reserve association

controlled entirely by bankers. This wide

departure from the established order of

things in banking circles will doubtless

create much opposition ,to this proposed

currency reform legislation, it being con-

tended by some who have already ex-

pressed opposition that it would tend to

drive the banks and bankers into politics,

while others affirm that with the gen-

eral adoption, of the proposed preferential

primaryvote political manipulations of

this kind would be impractical and that

under government control of this kind

the people could better place the respon-

sibility for the handling of reserve monies.



On the other hand, the more radical

element in the dominant party is renew-

ing talk about another investigation of

the money trust, so-cailed, with a view

to postponing currency reform legisla-

tion during the present session of Con-

gress at least. It is thus probable that

this bill, which will be pushed by the

administration, will cause much debate in

Congress and will be amended in many

particulars in the event that it is passed

at the present session, which will un-

doubtedly be greatly prolonged by its

consideration. It is, however, a matter

of vital public interest, for which reason

the above review of the provisions of the





tentative adminiStration plan for cur-

rency and banking reform is given at

this time.





A subscriber asks for in-

formation with regard to

the rules for mailing par-

cel post packages, stating

that the rural, cabrier requires packages

to be perFOnzilly delivered to him, which

in the inquirer’s case is something of a.





Mailing Parcel

'Post Matter.





hardship as he lives a half mile from the'





route traversed by the rural carrier,

whose time schedule over the route var-

ies to an extent which makes it incon-

venient to meet this requirement.



Section 10 of the parcel post regula—

tions reads as follows: “Parcels must be

mailed at a post ofi‘ice, branch post office,

named or lettered station, or such num-

bered station as may be designated by the

postmaster, or delivered to a. rural or

other carrier duly authorized to rcceive

such matter.”



It will thus be seen that in cases of

this kind the rural carriers are comply-

ing with the regulations preacribed for

them. This regulation was doubtless

considered necessary on account of the

provision requiring that all parcels must

be examined. and because of the risk

which would accompany the leaving of

packages unprotected to be picked up by

the rural carrier.



It'would appear, however, that this is

a provision of the parcel post regulations

which might well be modified for the

convenience of the patrons of same and

of those who do not live on the direct

route traversed by the rural carrier, at

least to the extent of permitting them to

provide a parcel box of approved type in

which parcels could be deposited for col-

lection by the carrier, and left by him

for the patrons providing and using the

box. People so situated would be justi-

fied in‘petitloning the Post Office Depart-

ment for such a modification of the pres-

ent parcel post regulations.





 





IT SAFE TO

BUY ANYWHERE.





 





You can purchase with safety any-

where, if you are informed upon mer-

chandise. The article you need may be

found in a little store, a few miles away;

it may be- in a big warehouse two thou-

sand miles away. But you should know

about it first .and know that it is'relia-

bl-e. Just watch the advertisements in

the Michigan Farmer.





The United States cruiser Detroit,

which at one time was one of the great-

est sea fighters of the United States

navy, is being converted into a coal car-

rying barge to be used in‘coastwlse and

river trade.





 





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, National. -T ~ -

Congressman Dorern'us, Of'the first cons.

gressioual district ‘of Michigan was chosen

by the democratic congressionmtcomm‘itr

tee as chairman to. lead the party in the.

mid-pr.e§idénfiai campaign for? 1914.51? ? ‘-

r President Wilson appeared before .Con-

gress on Monday for the second- time,

when he read his message urging imme-

diate action in regard 'to the financial

system of the country, suggestingmhat

currency and banking. reforms be acted

upon as a necessary corollary to tariff~

reform.



The_sugar schedule is under considers.

ation in the Senate causus this week and

stélrfatriouwgm a western democratic



'3 care a. mm ‘

at free in 1916, ' h V ‘

are using eVery

particular provisi ,



The capsizlng ,.

storm on the Mi, +

Madrid, Mo., ,rqg'

States engineers»

five others were saved.

were aboard a canal

preliminary survey of the river north of

New Madrid for government improve-

ments, when the accident occurred.



,Four unknown persons ,were drowned

in the Missouri river near Parkville, Mo.,

when the engine in the motor boat in

which they were riding went “dead" and

allowed the craft to drift upon some pil-

ing and capsize.



July 22 has been authorized by the

common council of Cleveland as the date

for the exercises in honor of the birth-

day‘ of that city.



Fifty persons were

them seriously, when a Pennsylvania rail-

road'excursion train was derailed near

Sterling station, New York, last,Sunday

morning.



In a freight wreck near Clinton, Iowa,

June 22, seven men were killed and an-

other. Seriously injured. The freight,

speeding down a four-mile grade‘crashed

into a gravel. train. Both engines were

wrecked and 28 cars Were piled up.



Two young boys were drowned in the

Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara. river, June. 22.

They had been playing in a. fiat-bottomed

scow anchored to the shore a half mile

above the rapids when the rope holding

the boat broke and they Were carried

down the stream and to death.



Joseph Rebone and wife, of Detroit,

were killed by an interurban car one‘ and

one—half miles east of Dearborn last Sun-

day afternoon.



The special train carrying veterans of

the Civil war to_Gettysburg will start for

Pennsylvania next Saturday. It is antici-

pated that a large number of those who

took part in the famous battle will attend

the reunion to be held there. The Legis-

uature of Michigan appropriated $20,000

to pay the railroad fares of those going

from this state. It was found, however,

that this was not sufficient, $6,000 more

being required. However, the railroads

have announced that they will trust the

state until the- Legislature meets and

appropriates the balance.



The state Epworth League institute of

Michigan and the state ministerial asso-

ciation of the M. E. church will gather at

Albion on June 22-29, inclusive, for their

annual summer school assembly.



Five indictments have been brought

against the Michigan Central Railroad

Company by a federal grand jury, charg-

ing Violation of interstate commerce laws.

The indictment alleges that the railroad

gave concession to two companies where

it failed to observe tariffs and schedules.

The maximum penalty, if found guilty on

all charges, is $1,940,000.





Foreign.





Twenty men have been sentenced to

death after a trial by court martial a't

Constantinople for complicity in the re-

cent assaSSination of the Grand Vizier.



Already 18 nations have accepted the

peace plan proposed by Secretary off-State

Bryan. President. lWilson now suggests

that representatives from each of the

contracting nations be appointed to com-

pose a commission to investigate any

controversies between the nations in the

compact.‘



Reports have- come from France to the

effect that violent rioting has been' re—

newed at Barcelona on account of trouble

in Morocco. The contest is between the

sooxalistic and the anarchistic elements.

A stormy meeting at Barcelona was fol-

lowed by a collision between the police

and the agitators, when firearms were

used and several persons were shot.



Report comes 'by way of Fairbanks,

Alaska, that Hudson Stuck, an Episcopal

missionary in Alaska, with four persons,

succeeded in reaching the top of the

south peak of Mt. Mchinley, the highest

point on the North American continent.

According to their barometer readihgs the

peak is 20,500 feet high.



_ Lucie Goyou, daughter of the late Pres-

ident of France, died at Paris, Sunday,

after a. short illness.





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The





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injured. some of





ANOTHER PHASE OF THE HUNTING

QUESTION.





 





 





Several of your correspondents have re-

cently called attention to the large

amount of damage done to the property

of farmers by the careleSS action of many

of the hunters. There is yet another

phase of the question which is urgently

in need of a remedy. Many of the rabbit

hunters are also fishers, and when out

fishing take their dogs along with them,

presumably for exercise. They are al-

loWed to range through the brushwood at

will, making the most “hideous shrieks.”

Now it is evident that game birds that

have their nests on the ground must be

very much disturbed thereby, and an odd

female bird of this class is oceasionaliy

found dead near~the edge of the brush,





perhaps killed in defending her- young. Is f





it a wonder that game birds are becoming“

scarce? -





__Gc_i., Traverse Cs. ' Sussex-nine.





.. HAPPENINGS es rHi-z wean-*3 ' :





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JUNE' 28. 1913.





 





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THE BINDING CONTRACT BETWEEN

CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

AND MEMBERS.





Would you explain through the columns

of your paper why it is so necessary for

a co-operative selling company to have

such' rigid contracts with its members.

requiring them to dispose of all of their

crops through the organization? We find





' that in many cases private concerns will





Wage ~therprice above what the co-op-



“at“. morepany would pay us. “’hy

to not be free to take advantage



F. S.





This inquiry describes a condition with

which a Mtge majority of the co-oper-

ative enterprises have at one time or an-

other been confronted and where many

of them have failed. Private concerns

are seeking to destroy confidence in the

co-operative organization. Temporarily

they will advance quotations to a point

Where the co-operative organization is not

able to pay. and by so doing they hope

to not only draw the members’ products

away but to also destroy their faith in

the ability of the co-operative enterprise

to ”make good.” If the members prove

disloyal and sell their- grain to the pri-

vate concerns there is but one course for

the co-Operative organization to take, and

that is the road to dissolution. When

that is accomplished the private concerns

will reduce their quotations that they

may gain back what was lost in destroy-

ing the competing movement.



In the successful conduct of any selling

business the superintendent or manager

must be able to look ahead and gain a

general idea, at least, of the amount of

business that will be done. He must

know something of the quantity of fruit,

or grain, or stock, or of whatever pr0~

ducts are being handled. that he will have

to sell. Knowing this he can proceed to

find the best market and make arrange-

ments with buyers. Now. should there be

no binding agreement between the mem—

bers and the association, and the pro-

ducts which the association expects to

sell are easily diverted to private con-

cerns by a little advance in the quota-

tions, the manager can make no prom-

ises or arrangements whatever—he is

helpless. “'hereas if the members are

under legal obligation to Sell to the co-

operative concern, the manager can then

plan his selling campaign and make en-

gagements and contracts.



Experience has shown that men who.

may promise faithfully to deliver their

products to the co-operative storage

house. or elevator, cannotmbe relied up-

on. Again and again this has been tried

and only a small percentage have suc-

ceeded. Men stirred with the enthusiasm

accompanying the organization of a co—

operative concern are apt to over-esti-

mate the strength of their moral powers

and to make engagements which they do

not have the courage to fulfill in time of

stress or temptation. Because of this

weakness no movement of this nature

should expect to become permanently

successful unless the members are obli-

gate'd by stronger evidence than mere

word of mouth.



As a result of the many failures to

stand loyal to the organization when out-

side influences are operating to destroy

it, the precaution of binding the mem-

bers to the organization with contracts

is now being taken, and the:=e contractual

arrangements have proved to be the

foundation stone on which the stability

of the business is built. These contracts

usually provide that in lieu of liquidated

damages an aSSessment be levied against

each and'every member who breaks the

contract. Some elevator associations have

framed their agreements with members

so the latter may sell their grain to out-

side concerns, providing the association

be paid two per cent or more of the

price received. This requirement has

been brought into question in some jud-

‘isdictlons and the courts have held it

illegal in that it acts as a restraint of

trade. The assessment plan appears,

therefore, to be the preferable arrange-

ment. The following clause referring to

this matter is taken from the contracts

used by the Citrus Fruit Growers’ Ex-

change of California:





“The actual damages which will be sus-

tained by the first party because of the

failure or refusal of any of the second

parties to pick and deliver his said fruit

as herein provided, and the further detri-

ment and injury to the first party be-

cause of the effect of said breach upon

the (association) and its effi-

ciency, and the expenses to which the





 





 





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first party will be put. "and the damage

caused by outlays incurred and to be in-

curred by it in providing means for sell-

ing and marketing the said fruit, are im-

possible now to estimate or fix. and,

therefore. the same are estimated and

agreed upon as twenty-five cents (25c)

for each box of fruit grown or sold, which

sum shall be allowed in any action

brought by the first party to recover

damages for the breach of this agreement

by any of the second parties. should the

first party elect, and it may elect. to

bring Such action." ’



Thus we see the most successful co-op-

crative assoeiation in the country has

seen fit to use an iron—clad contract in





holding members to patronize the asso-





ciation, which fact together with the ob-‘





servations already noted lead us to the

conclusion that such an arrangement is

quite necessary if men are going into

such an enterprise to improve their mar-

keting conditions.





 





TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF MICH-

lGAN’S SUPERIOR POTATOES.

The Michigan Potato Grading Associa-

tion has been formed, with L. F. Perk-

elt. of Grand Traverse county, as presi-

dtnt. and S. D. Lardie, secretary. The

association includes in its membership

men from the important potato shipping

points from Grand Rapids on the south to

l’etoskey on the north. The association

plans to adopt standard grades for pota-

tOcs and to arrange an inipection system

and to‘design a label which will be used

upon potatoes that come up to the stan-

dards. The Michigan potato is of extra

quality but has not been duly appreciated

in the big markets because occasionally

poor stock has become mixed with the

good. \\’ith the new ianection system in

operation the buyer will be sure of a

square deal, so that he will be on the

watch for potatoes bearing the label of



the association.



The methods that this association are

to follow in its campaign for improving

the market for the better grades of

Michigan potatoes. are to be Commended.

They are baf‘ed upon the principle of

honesty, since it is the desire and pur—

pose of the members of the organization

to give to those who buy just What is

wanted, and by the use of a registered

lab-.1 it hopes to protect those patronii

against any who would use the good

:r'me of the society for unloading inferior

grades of tubers.





 





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





Sanilac Co., June 20.—VVe have had

very dry weather ever since spring open-

ed up. All crops have suffered more or

less for the want of moisture. Yesterday

and last night light showers came to re—

lieve the situation some. Rather late for

most of the hay fields for the clover is

coming out in head. Beans about all

drilled. Corn all up; some up in tFme to

catch the frosts of June 9-10. \Vheat

coming out in head rather short. some

being plowed up for beans. Sugar beets

industry is not very promising. caused by

the removal of the tariff. All grain is

about the same in price. Hogs and cattle

high. Cows have given a good flow of

milk: not many flies. Hay market still

lifeless.



Lapeer Co., June 20.——After two weeks

of dry weather the drought was broken

yesterday by heavy rains. The oat crop

needed it Very much and would have been

a. very light crop. Wheat, pastures, and

everything revived. Haying will be ready

before July 1. Corn crop away behind

time; many are yet planting potatoes and

beans. Bottom knocked out of potato

prices, but all kinds of grain bring a big

price. Ground feed, $1.60 per cwt. and

going up; butter lower, 240; eggs, l9c.



Newaygo Co., June 20.—Long drought

was broken last night by a heavy rain

which was welcomed by the farmers in

this section, but too late to save the hay

crop as most farmers had to cut their

hay tosave it.





the pastures and hay until hay isn‘t one-

third of a crop.





rain will make the early ones.





same. time. eggs, 17c: butter, 23c:





chickenS, 120; fall rye and wheat look





good; oats are poor.

Ohio.



Carroll Co, June 20.——It rained here

last night. the first rain here since the

first of this month. The grass just seem-

ed to burn up. The hay crop will be

very short. The roads were very dusty

and everything needed rain. The wheat

does not look very good now. The cher-

ries are about all picked. The pastures

are very short. Farmers are still holding

their wool. Eggs, 17c: butter, 200.





 





An attempt is to be made by the De-

troit city council to pass an ordinance- re-

quiring ice dealers to weigh each cake of

ice before delivering it.





 





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Years . You take no risk

Experience

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We went to prove that our machines are a

good investment before you give up your

money. We know they are so good that we do

not feel it a risk to make this offer. Many new

features have been added which you would know about

before ha“); a machine. Catalog explains all. It is free.





   





 





The long cold spell and

freeze. then hot and dry weather damaged





Corn is late and looks

bad; potatoes are looking good and this

Farmers

are busy plowing corn, putting in beans

and late potatoes, and haying at the





The E. . Ross 00.. Box 114 Springfield. 0.





WANT TO BUY hfififivié‘fi‘ZZ‘i‘iefl‘i‘S‘Sé‘l





breeding. W. H. Hi. WERTZ. Wooster. 0 lo.





 





 





 





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l . _ .

For Sale Registered Jersey Cattle tuberculin teet-





ed: bulls and bull calves: enter and heifer

calves; cows with Register of Merit and Cow Testing

Association records. IRVIN FOX. Mlegan. Mich.





BUTTER. BRED JEfi‘ifi‘éRE‘m

CRYSTAL SPRING STOCK FARM.

Silver Creek. Allegan County. Michigan.





Mill; Blifll SIIOIillllllllIS‘gi'fiS: .31”? till'cg's'i‘o‘éi





. B. HUMMEL. Mason. Michigan.





 





 





' ~Large Cattle—Heavy Milken.

”a", SIIOI'IIIMII‘ Milk Records of all cows kept.

No stock for sale at present.



W. W. KNAPP, B. No. 4. Watervliet. Mich.





 





 





SHEEP.





T PAYS TO BUY thoroughbred sheep of PARSONS.



f The Sheep Man of the East." R. 1, Grand Ledge.

Mich. (Write for descriptiveiprice list.) I pay express

charges. Oxfords. Shropshires. Remboulllet. Pellet! Delllne.





flog. llambulllel Sheep. Pure Brod Poland China

HUGS and PERCHERON HORSES. 2% miles

E. Morrioe. on G. ’1‘. R. It. and M. U. R. J.Q. A. 000K.





 





 





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.

CATTLE. '





Aberdeen-Angus.





Herd. consisting of Trojan Ericae. B aokbirds and

Pridea. 0111*. is headed by Egorton W. the GR D

CHAMPIO bull at the State. West. Michigan and

Bay City Fairs of 191‘! and the siren! Winners at. these

Fairs and at THE INTERNATIONAL. Oblong. of

1912. \VOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionla. Iic .





GUERNSEY BULL CALVES,

YORKSHIRE PIGS. Good Stock.

mcus curnnszv nu. Saginaw, w. s.. Mich.





GUERNSEYS‘EE‘. “'Ei’fi‘imit‘raié’i’liiléc. "life“;

J. K. BLATCHFORD. Auditoriun Tower. Chicago‘Jll.





 





 





 





I Have 2 Reg. Guernsey bulls left. Ready for service,

the very best breeding. cheap it taken soon. Guar-

antee satisfaction. John Ebola. R. 10. Holland. Mic-h.





IIEREEORI) BULLS FOR SALE éflifiapi’ifié‘fl





LEN BROS. Paw Paw. Michigan.





 





HOICE Bull Calves from A. R. O. dams. Six-ed by

our herd sire whose dam and site’s dam each made

over 3011». in 7 days E. Ii. Cornell. Howell. Mich.





A FEW cnolCE Holstein Frienian Bull Calves

for Sale. A. R. 0. Stock.



GREGORY & BORDEN. Howell. Michigan.

HOLSTEIN BULLS—well bred. at. reasonable prices.





Barred Rock Chickens from 15 years breeding. Good

layers eggs 15 for $1. W. B. Jones. Oak Grove. Mich.





 





FOR Sale—Two reg. Holstein bull calves. ]& 7 months

old from good A. ILO. dams. Fine individuals. Price

reasonable. Floyd F. Jones. R. 3. Oak Grove, Mich.





“Top-Notch” Holsteins.





Choice bull calves from 2 to 8 mo. old. of fashion-

able breeding and from dame with oflicial milk

and butter records for sale at reasonable prices.





MePHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlehluln.

Purebred Registered





H OLSTE IN CATTLE

‘ . The Greatest Dairy Breed



‘ Send for FREE, Illa-tread Booklet

Holstein-Frisian. Ano.. Box 164. Battleboro.Vt.





IMPORTANT T0 HOLSTEIN BREEDERS.





If there is a breeder or a community of breeders in

Michigan in need of one of the greatest: BULLS of

the GREAT EST breed of Dairy cattle in the world, I

Wish. to call your attention to the fact that I mu

offering FOR .SALE. Pledge Duke De Kol Welsrij

No. 4.30.47. He is a great. breeder. a grand individual?

Bred right. and guaranteed a. sure breeder. sound

and right in every respect. His dam is Nancy Pledge

Princess. Butter in 7 days. 32.39 lbs.; Milk in 7 days. 7mm)

lbs,; Butler in 30 days. 132.3! lbs ;Milk in 30 days, 3057.701b5.:

Come and see him and see his heifers. and be convinced of





his worth. L. 1'1. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.





Bigelow’s Holstein 'Farms





Breedsville, Mich. .

Have for sale several fine young

bulls out of cows with high official

butter and milk records.



Send for circular.





HOLSTEIN COWS FOR SALE





Bred to a bull that in more than a half br th t

W orlds record cow Benostine Belle De Kg]. eTlilsthi:

an opportunity for some one to start in Registered

stock at a moderate cost.



LI). S. LEWIS. Marshall. Michigan.





NTHIS HOLSTEIN BULL





\\‘BH:SII‘€d by best son of PONTIAC BUTTERBOY.

Dam has official record of 24 lbs. as4-vr.-old. 90lbs. milk

a day. Price 3100. C. D. WOODBUBY. Lnnsing,Mich.





REGISTERED lltllSlElllS. greenish;





right in the city, only few minutes from Jackson or

Lansing, Electric care from both cities every hour





HOLSTEIN BULLS.





EltoSmonthepld. $75 to 8300. Don't buy until you

get. our pedigrees and niece. LONG BEACH

FARMS. Augusta. Ka amazon CO.. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 

 

 





 





Butter Profits





You ought to get more butter

profits. Jersey Cattle mean

more butter profits, because

they yield more butter fat at

less net cost of keep than any

other breed.





THE JERSEY





excels in beauty of dairy t e. She is

persistent mllker. Jerseys It"; easily aeolia-

maled. They live long and keep healthy.

They mean steady butter profits. Write

now for Jersey facts. Free for the asking.

AURIGA]! JERSEY CATTLE 01.03

82‘ W. 2301 81:. New York





   

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





 





 

 





     





 





(ngllile wflstead erseys

Tu mu 1: . unranteed free f -

ouloele.) Severn] good bulls and bull enrlovlge £323;

good dairy cows for sale. No Jennies for sale at

present. Satisfaction Wernnteed.

COLON C LILIJE Coonmvlllo. Mich.





—Bulla ready for eervl bred f

erseys °“~ °‘

production. AI

Breakwater Farm. 8. l’. D. No.5? fiffifirtffigfif

FOR SALE-Hm I»... W 3......

from prlze winning stock.





GEO. C. BORCK. Grand Haven. Michigan.





 





 





SHROPSHIRES o DUROCS





KOPEsKON FARM. Kinderhook. Michigan.

H005.

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Durocs ii Victoria: Eithfl'fileid’ii‘éfiii‘ph 33%;?

M. T. Story. B. B. 48 Lowell. Mich, City Phone 55.



. Ch v - n I

BERKSHIRES rifiéfd" .Zp‘ilfio bé’iigk.“iinri.§'3.

stock. ELMHURST STOCK FARM. Almont, Mich.

BERKSHIRE PIGS FOR SALE—filthn‘féci'étr'éf

’l‘ernes Stock Farm, 1730 Michigan Ave.. Detroit.Mich.

Quick Malnrm Berkshiro:“§§€.‘.?§§€.‘l§i“§.2?§.f€£§i

or money refnn ed. 0. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





' —bred for July farrowing,also achoice

A Iflarllfll 30" lot. of Sprint? Plus for sale. Either

sex. A. A. PA'I'I‘ULLO. R. 0.1 Deckerville. Mich.





I 0 —Big growtby type. last fall gilte and this



- - - spring furrow to offer. Very good stock.



Scott No. 1 head of hard. Farm l6 mile west of depot.

OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.





O l C ,s—A FEW BRED SOVVS FOR

0 0 SEPTEMBER FARROW.

GEO. P. ANDREWS. Dansvllle, Ingham 00.. Mich.





“r Write me for

0' l.‘ Ce 8 [NE rice on Spring

Pigs. pairs and trioa. not. akin. ave a number

of sorvxce males of good ty 8. Write me describing

of your wants. A. J. GORD N. B. No. 2 Don. Mich.





 





 





 





 





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I have started more breeders on the road to sue.

case thanany man living. I have thelargeat and fln- :

est herd in the U. 8. Every one an early dev010per.

ready for the market at. six months old. want to



lace one has in each community to advertise my

erd. write for my plan ,“How to Make Money from



. Hogs. G. S. BENJAMIN. R.No.lo Portland, “I'll. .





o 5 —all sold. Orders booked for April

- l- c sand Maypigsofthe choicestlre di

0. J. THOMPSON. Rockford. Michigaen “3'





9 —Bred sows. March i 3 ‘rs ; d



03 I. C S trios. Bufl‘liock 135155 320 perlIIS.

FRED NICKEL R. 1. Monroe. Michigan.



0. I. C’s—All ages. growthy and large. Males





ready. 100 to select. from. Attractive '

on young stock. H. H. JUMP. Munith. Micrgrxces





—.\Iarch pigs ready to ship. the I

0- II c- growthy kind with plenty of bonefnhg

farmers prices. A. NEWMAN. R. l. Mariette. Mich.





—F ll (1 S ' b

arse-listlessseems s: .

Brookwater Farm. R. F. D. No. 7. Enfuflfigi Milli.





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DUROC JERSHS 33.... is. 5:222. 35.. as:





F. J. DRODT. R. N . 1. Monroe. Michigan.





 





 





 





 





 





 





lluroc Jerseys—Nothing But Spring Pigs For Sale.





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hastings. Michigan.





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MILES ILL SOLD BUI ONE “3.18.5.3.“ IIILIEIL‘I‘SIIEI





Station A. Bay City. Mich. Route 4. limit KI





 





 





llltth .l ERSEY SPRING PIGS of either sex for

. sale. Pairs not akin. also 2 Reg. Percheron mares.

2 years old. both greys. M. A. BRAY. Okemos. Mich.





PolAND CHINAS—}§Oth Western and Home

Prices right. w. J. HAGXE‘JE-Sfllljllwfnllfizfistgy,b11153?





Butler’s Big Bone Poland Chinas





We have a few nice tall boars. also some blg sows

bred for fall furrow. Our hogs are all cholera proof.

J. C. BUTLER. Portland. blichlgnn.





Big Type Poland China Pl 3 “t “05““ ”m“ E3

f b ‘

.0... .1... .5. Roam-gum, assess?





POLAND CHINAS—Either sex. all ages, 809,9.

P. 1). LONG. R. No. s.“’é‘l§..§°°il.$id£ illil'chlixgj





P.AC.ABOARS AND sowstywiyvewiwd





. woon & SON. Saline. 1.113%???





BIG TYPE MULE FOOT HOGS~AII

350 sale. Prolific and Hardy, also Ponies 35:11:35

for Michigan. J. DUNLAP. Box M.Willinmsport.0hlo.





 





 





 





 





ARGE Yorkshiree—Choico breedin stock

L not. akin. from State Fair prize-swinner:uggglz

green furnished. W. C. COOK. R. 42 Box 22.Ada. M'ch.





O‘RKSHIRE Swine—We have Rom ' '

was now ready for sale. Write for deisgicliizlgllirzigg

prices. OS’I‘RANDER BROS. Morley. Mich.





FOR SALe-srggm roe we.

service. WATERMAN & WATEIthlz'fM

Meadowland Farm. Ann Arbor. Michigan.





Lillie Farmstead YORKSHIBES





Spring bred zilts all sold. Gilta bred for next A

furrow. Segtember pine either sex. pain and 'I‘rllg:

not akin. ‘ rdere booked to: e ring pics.



COLON C. LILLIE. cover-ville. Mich





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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





 





June- 25, 1913.



Wheat—The tendency of the wheat

market this past week seemed to be to-

ward a lower basis. The trade was de-

pendent almost entirely upon crop con-

ditions and responded to changes through-

out the week. Since mOSt of the wheat

growing states and provinces were fav-

ored with rain the tendency of ,values

was naturally downward. However, on

Tuesday futures were advanced a frac-

tion because the rains had not been

sufficient over a. large portion of the

wheat belt to remove the crop from dan-

ger. In fact, extensive damage has al-

ready been done and unless 'a cons1der-

able more moisture falls and the weather

remains cool portions of the territory,

particularly in the spring wheat sections,

will have scarcely any crop to harvest at

all. Conditions, therefore, seem to favor

the present baSis of values so far as this

Country is concerned, it demanding the

most favorable weather to improve the

crop beyond present expectations. Eu-

ropean countries report favorable weather

and some weakness has developed there

because of the improved outlook. On

the other hand, the visible supply in

EurOpe is smaller than a year ago. and

the same is true in this country. Cash

wheat is in fair demand, millers in the

northwest being heavy buyers on Tues-





day. Because of the speculative possibil-

ities in the trade at the present time

prices are likely to fluctuate consuler-

ably. One year ago the. price for NO.





red wheat on the local market was $1.12%,





per bu. Quotations for the past week

are as follows:

No. 2 N0. 1

Red. “'hite. July. Sept.

Thursday ...l.051/_. 1.04%, 92 921/2

Friday . .1.05 1.04 92 93.

Saturday ....1.05 1.04 92 93

Monday . .1.03 1.02 911/; 921/;

. Tuesday ....l.0.i 1.02 92 92%.

Wednesday ..1.03 1.02 91% 92%,

Chicago. (June 24).—No. 2 red wheat,

97c6_11$1; July, 91c; Sept., 9013c; Dec.,

933.0 er bu. ‘

1<lewp York, (June 24).—July Wheat,

Dill/ac; Sept., 98c; Dec, $1 per bu.

Corn.~This deal was unable to stand





the pressure of a declining wheat mar—

ket and the general fall of moisture over

the corn states. Generally speaking’the

crop has been materially improved since

a week ago and the prospect is corres-

pondingly brighter for a larger harvest.

However, many sections are still in much

need of rain and unless it comes soon the

crop will not measure up to the normal





standard. Quotations have ,declined a.

full cent during the week which, how-

ever, is only a portion of the advance

for the previous week. One year ago

No. 3 corn was quoted at 76c per bu.

on the local market. Quotations for the

' r ' are:

pa t “ eek N0. 3 No. 3

Corn. Yellsotw.

Th u rsd a ................. 62

Friday y ................... 611/. 631/2

Saturday ................. 611,4 631,;

Monday .................. 61 63

Tuesday ................. 61 63

\Vcdnesday ............... 601/; 621/2

Chicago, (.lune 24).——No. 2 corn, 601/460

6013;,c; No. 3 yellow, 60 61*6034c; .luly,





5979c; Sept. 6111c; Dec, 58%c per bu.



Oats—«This trade also suffered a de-

cline. Not only was marketing affected

_by the downward trend

corn but the rains of the past week

cameat an opportune time and did much

to improve the outlook for the growmg

crop. On the local market there is only

a moderate supply of grain with a good

demand. One year ago the price here

was 5534c per bu. for standard oats. Quo-

tations for the past week are:





No. 8

Standard. leiqte.

Thursda ' ................. 44 .

Friday ) ................... 431/2 421/,

Saturday ................. 431,4; 421,5

Monday .................. 43 .42

Tuesday .................. 3 42

“Wednesday ................ 421/.» 411/;

Chicago, (.lune 24l.—-—No, 2 outs, 3811561)





40c; No. 2 white. “(Hill/3c; standard, 401/;

@411,v-'_‘c; July, 401:,c; Sept, 411,91; per bu.

Beans—No change has occurred in the

bean deal at this point and the same

nominal prices that ruled a week ago

were again published by the board Tues-

day, they being $2.05 for prompt; and

June shipment and $2.10 for August.

Chicago, (June 24i.~—17nchanged quota-

tions rule at this point. The market

continues steady with very few con-

tracts being made. l’e-a beans, haml-





picked, fancy are quoted at $2.35 per bu.;.





prime. $2.20; red kidneys,

$2.50 per bu.

conditions continue

demand and of—

2 is quoted at





choice. $2.50;

$2; White kidneys,



Rye.—La‘st week’s

with the cereal in good

ierlngs small. Cash No.





64c per bu. The Chicago price is steady

to higher with No. 2 quoted at 61@62c

per bu.





Bariey.-——There is no material change

in barley values and prices ave-rage

about the same, they being but a-shade

higher in Chicago and lower at Milwau-

kee. The Chicago range. is from 506066c

while at Milwaukee the margin is from

58@66c per bu.



Clover Seed.——All seed values rule low-

er. Rains and the early maturing of the

first crop of June seeding seemingly is

encouraging a better ,crop than was ear-

lier expected. At Toledo prime October

is. down to 31;.121/2 and Dec. $3.0m, per

bu. Alsike has declined, prime Oct. be.

ing $8.75 and Dec. $8.70 per bu.





of wheat and‘





1‘.





TH E ’M‘I CH‘I‘GAN :FA'RM’ER





Timothy Seed.—Values for thisseed at

Toledo have. advanced over last week’s

higher figures._ Quotations for prime cash

are $2.50; August, $2.70; Sept, $2.60 per

bushel. ,





FLOUR AND'FEEDs.





 





FIour.—Jobbing lots in 15 paper sacks

are selling on the Detroit market per 196

lbs. as follows: Best patent, $5.70; see-

Ond, $5.20; straight, $5; spring patent,

$5.10: rye flour, $4.60 per bbl. .



Feed.»Detroit jobbing prices in' 100-

lb. sacks are as follows: Bran, $21;

coarse middlings, $21; fine middlings, $27;

cracked corn, $25; coarse corn meal,

$22.50; corn and oat chop, $21 per ton.



Hay.——Reports continue to come in of

the poor growth of the new hay crop ov-

er widely different sections. Lack of

moisture is the chief cause. Old hay

trading does not reflect the condition of

the new crop as yet, the market being

slow and well supplied. Carlots on the

track at Detroit are: No. 1 timothy.

$14.506015; No. 2, $126013; light mixed,

$13.50@14; No, 1 mixed, $126013 per ton.



Chicago—There is a better demand for

hay, with values averaging about steady.

Movement is improving. Choice timothy,

$156016 per ton; No. 1, $14.506015; No. 2,

$126013; No. 3 and clover mixed, $86011;

clover, $86012; alfalfa, $146017.



New York—Market dull for all except

large bales of choice timothy, which are

scarce and in demand. Quotations: No.

1 timothy, $20@21; standard, $18@19 per

ton. .



Straw.——Steady. Carlot prices on wheat

and oat straw on Detroit market are $8

8.50 per ton. rye straw, $9@10 per ton.



Chicago—Lower. Rye straw, $8609; oat

$6607; wheat, $550606 per'ton.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





Butter.—\Vhatever change has occurred

in the past week has been in the direc-

tion of slower demand and lower values.

Elgin went off 1/20 on Monday. The lo-

cal market continues in fair condition

with former prices ruling. .Detroit job-

bing prices as follows: Fancy creamery,

271/2c; firsts. 26c; dairy, 22c; packing

stock, 20c per lb.



Elgin.‘——Market steady at 271/20.



Chicago—An indifferent demand here

is causing a shading of prices. The fee!-

ing is easy with holders more disposed

to sell than in some weeks. Quotations

are: Extra creamery, 2760271/2c; extra.

firsts, 26966026040; firsts, 251/2c; seconds,

241,561,125c; dairy extras, 26c; firsts. 240;

seconds, 22c; packing stock, 12@21c as

to quality.



New York.—_Barring packing stock.

which shows a little improvement, all

grades are 1A601c lower with the market





 





reported weak. Quotations: Creamery

extras, 27156027340; firsts, 261/26027c; sec-





onds, 25%60261/4c; state dairy, finest, 261/2





6127c; good to prime, 256026c; common to

fair. 2360241AZC; packing, 20@220 as to

quality.





Eggs.——Offerings are fully up to re-

quirements but the quality of receipts is

weekly becoming more variable. Prices

show a loss of 1/20 since last week. Cur-

rent offerin-gs. candied, being quoted at

18140 per dozen.



Chicago.——Good fairly





northern stock





steady; inferior goods weak and hard to

move. Prices cover a wide range but

average about Mac lower than a week

ago. Miscellaneous receipts, cases in-

cluded. are quoted at 1661/17c; do.. cases

returned, 151/3fi7161/éc; ordinary firstS, 16

60161/zc; firsts. 171461117374c; storage pack-





ed. firsts, 18617181/2c per dozen.



New York—Irregular; some grades are

quoted higher. Fresh gathered extras,

221/260240; western gathered, whites, 20@

23c per dozen.





Poultry—The local market is slow un-

der liberal receipts and a demand that

is only fair. Broilers and hens quoted

lower. Quotations are: Live.—~—Bi‘oilerS,

256126c; hens, 151/260160: No. 2 hens, 12

((1'13c; old roosters, 116i>12c; turkeys, 1761)

18c; geese, 126013c; ducks, 15612160 per lb.



Chicago—Trade slow outside of spring





chickens which are active and higher.

Quotations on live are: Turkeys, good

Weight, 156017c; others, 120; fowls, good,

141/311; spring chickens, 27c: ducks, 1160





12c; geese, 7609c; guinea hens, $4 per doz.



Cheese.—Steady. “’holesale lots, Mich-

igan llats, 141460141340; New York flats,

15%;161‘i16c; brick cream, 14%@15c; lim-

burger, 141/2fiil5c.



Veal.—Quiet; values unchanged.

1314360140; common, 10@11c.



Chicago-«Market quiet and slow with

stock being carried over from day to





Fancy





 





 





 





day. Prices generally about 1c lower

than last week. Fair to choice, 8060110-

lbs., 1260130; extra fancy stock, 13%c;

fair to good chunky, 1160120.



WOOL.

Boston—Wool dealers are convinced





that a change has come over the Amer-

ican farmer. Instead of being the timid

person of the past when he sold out as

soon as the market indicated a decline,

he 'now shows resolution. for in the face

of lower values that have been ‘ruling

lately and a certainty that the tariff will

be.- removed' by Congress he stands un-

fiinchingly, refusing to sell his wool hold-

ings because he considers the offers for

them too low. As a result manufactur-

ers are already taking note of the fact

that the new clip is not moving market-

ward and there is a little more life com-

ing into the trade by reason of the users

of raw wool going out to supply their





present needs. Altogether their purchases





here amounted to 940.000 lbs. last week

as compared with 743,000 lbs. the previous

week and 1,915,000 lbs. for the corres-

ponding week a year ago. Medium wools

are moving slowly at around 20c in the

central states.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples—Supplies are scarce and values

higher. Detroit quotations are: Fancy,

$5606; ordinary, $3604 per bbl. . r



Raspberries.—-Lower. Red, $4604.50 per

24-pint case.



S'trawberries.—The climax of the South'-

ern Michigan harvest is here and pres-

ent prices are perhaps as low as they

will be this season. Locally they are

selling at $3603.50 per bushel wholesale.



Potatoes.—The market continues to de-

cline and be neglected. Ample supplies.

Prices are now lower than they have

been at any time this spring. Michigan

stock now selling at 20@25c per bushel

in car lots.



New York—Old potatoes neglected and

there is no settled price.



Chicago—This trade is all but gone,

the regular quotation for offerings being

15c per bushel. New potatoes are being

substituted.





GRAND RAPIDS.





Jobbers are paying the country trade

22c for No. 1 dairy butter and 17c for

eggs this week. Live poultry is bringing

13@14c, veal 9@10c. The city market

had 300 loads Tuesday morning with

strawberries in the best supply so far

but still far below normal. Berries

brought $1602 per crate; cherries, espec-

ially sours, will be a very fair crop in

this section, and they are beginning to

come in, sours selling at $1.25 and sWeets

at $2.25. First gooseberries are bringing

$1.60. In the vegetable

worth $175602; spinach

unchanged at 50c. Hay

sells at $146018.





 





 





and asparagus

is scarce and





DETROIT RETAIL QUOTATIONS.





 





Eastern Market.—There was a good

market on Tuesday, considering the sea-

son. Buyers were plentiful, which made

selling active and prices generally sat-





isfactory. Lettuce was retailing at 40

6060 per basket; carrots at 20c per

dozen. bnches; beets. 3060350 per dozen





bunches; asparagus, $1 per dozen. Straw-

berries of fair quality were offered freely

at $225603 per 24-qt. case. Potatoes, 45c

per bu. for best gradeS; green peas $2

per bu; loose hay $136016 per ton.





THE LIVE STOCKJ MARKETS.

Buffalo.

June 23, 1913.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central‘stock Yards,

East Buffalo. New York).



Receipts of stock here today as follows:

Cattle, 216 cars; hogs, 100 double decks;

shcep and lambs, 32 double decks; calves

1600 head.



\Vith 216 cars of cattle on our market

here today, and only 18000.1'eported in

Chicago, while we had ,the biggest run

of the season, the good dry-fed cattle,

weighing .from 1200 up, quality consider—

ed, sold steady with last Monday, except

in a few cases where they weighed around

1300 or less. The dry-fed butcher cattle

sold from 1561.25c per cwt. lower than

last week, while grassy stock of all kinds

cows, heifers, steers and bulls, sold fully

256050c lower. and a very slow and drag-

gy trade from start to finish. Fresh cows

and springers also sold strong $56010 per

head lower. At the close, about all de-

sirable grades were cleaned up, but quite

a number of grassy and slippery kind un-

sold. ‘ -





\Ve quote: Best 1350 to 1500-lb. steers,

$875609; good to prime 1200 to 1300—1b.

steers, 5585061870; good to prime 1100 to





1200-lb. do., $8'.25608;50; coarse and plain

weighty steers, $775618; good to choice

handy steers, $775618; medium butcher

steers, $7.25607.50; light common grassy

butcher steers, $650607; best fat cows,

$550606; good butcher cows. $5605.25; light

butcher cow's, $5605.25; trimmers, $4604.25;





best fat heifers, dry-fed, $750608; me-

dium butcher heifers, $7.50607.75; light

and common grassy heifers, $6.50@6.75;





st0ck heifers, $5506.16; best feeding steers,

dehorned, $7607.50; light and common

stockers, $5.7561‘6.25; prime heavy bulls,

$650607; best butcher bulls. $6606.50; bo-

logna bulls, $6606.50; stock bulls. $5.50@6;

Best milkers and springers, $606070; com-

mon kind do, $4061.50.



Our hog receipts footed up a total of

about 100 double decks, same number as

we had a week ago, and with but very

little outside demand here today, we had

to rely on the packers for the outlet, con-

sequently a 560100 decline from Satur-

day’s best time. About everything in the

good line sold at So, with a few selected

lights and pigs at 9590560010; roughs, $7.50

((07.75; stags, $6607. Trade closed easy,

but about everything was sold.



Sheep and lamb market fairly active

today; priccs about steady with the close

of last week: most of the choice handy

yearling lambs selling at $6616.25; spring

lambs, $7@7.25. Look for about steady

prices the balance of the week.





 





We quote: Choice spring lambs. $760

7.25; cull to fair (10.. $6606.75; yearling

lambs. $6606.25; bucks, $3603.50; wethers,

$475605; handy ewes, $4604.50; heavy

ewes, $3.50603.60; cull sheep. $2.50603.25;

veals, choice to extra. 5510601050: fair to

good, $7@10; heavy calves, $4.50@6.



Chicago.

June 23, 1913.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.





Received today ...... 18.000 44.000 10,000

Same day last year..18,306 41,243 18,223

Received last week..53.056 125,879 96,071

Same week last year.52,865 117.858 87,423





The Chicago Live Stock, Exchange de-

cided at a special meeting to observe not

only the Fourth of July, but also the fol-

lowing day, Saturday. as a close holiday.

Accordingly, no live stock will be sold on

the two days. and country shippers will

act accordingly.



The meager run of cattle today, Mon-





 





line peas are;





JUNE 28. ,1913.





day; is attributable to the bad break in 8





prices laSt week.

tive general





There is a fairly ac~

demand,





ing at $8.25@8.80.

gveek averaged 240

48





fiogs ,marketed last

s.,

lbs. 3. week earlier, 236 lbs.





three years ago. After the smash-upln





prices, sheepmen held back supplies, angry





scarcely 10,000 head arrived today!

eluding shipments consigned to the.:}.

ers. Prices averaged 25c higher, they,

being $7.50 for springs, $7 for fed lambs

and $5 for ewes. ’





 





Cattle prices last week rose-to the high- 8





eSt levels recorded in a long time, Mon-

day’s market being the best, with a.

moderate supply, following recent light

receipts. Later in the week much larer

numbers showed up, including -

tle not in full flesh that

marketed because of but

and lack of water, "

large reductions. _

to expect further liquidationcm

of cattle feeders, and they be

ingly. The bulk of the beef

during the week went It I!

though the later sales Were be ow this

range, with considerable numbers going

as low as $7.75. The pooreSt steers

brought $7.25 and the best grade of heavy

beeves $9609.20, with a good class at

$8.50 and over, whilecommon .to prime

yearlings found buyers at $7.75@9. Butch-

erinug cows and heifers had a good de-

mand. as usual, selling at $515609, the

top figure being obtained for 54 head of

Hereford heifers averaging 820 lbs. They

were in a class by themselves. and Were

fed in this state by an expert in the line

of baby beef making. The next price

for heifers was $8.75, while cutters sold

at $4.65@5.10, canners at $3.50@4.60 and

bulls at $5.25607.75, with a few prime

little yearling bulls at $8. The stocker

and feeder trade was fairly animated at

marked reductions in prices as the week

advanced, the“ former going at $625608

and feeders carrying considerable: weight

bringing $7608. Dried-up pastures in var-

ious sections are responsible for numer-

ous marketings of these cattle. The

greater part of the stock cows and heif-

ers went at $550607, and stock calves

brought $750608. The calf market was

materially lower, with a restricted de-

mand at $5609.25. early sales taking place

as. high as $10.25 for prime. light vealers.

Milkers and springers had a moderate

sale on the basis of 335060100 per head,

the greater part bringing $606070. Back-

ward springers of the best class had a.

fair country demand. The general cat-

tle market closed 250 lower than a week

ago. with the poorer to good stockers and

feeders showing a decline of 250 and

upward.



Hogs suffered several breaks in prices

last Week, following the previous boom,

With some rallies. The receipts were not

at all excessive, and every hog was need-

ed, With eastern shippers good buyers

on some days. Losses from the intensely

hot Weather Were extraordinarily large,

more dead hogs being removed from ar-

rivmg cars on Monday than ever before.

1he early sharp declines in prices caused

numerous stock feeders to delay market-

ing their hogs, and this was a great help

in bringing about a check to the weak-

ness. The lighter and medium butcher





Weights were the best sellers, and heavy,





packing hogs sold lowest, as usual. Stock-

men are putting more flesh on their hogs

asa general rule than in recent years,

being encouraged to do so by the high

prices prevailing, but those who got their

matured hogs marketed before the ’recent

hot wave made no mistake. Eastern

packers are getting a good many hogs

from their home territory. and this tends

to lesSen their operations in the Chicago

hog market. Provisions are accumulating

111 leading western packing centers, the

aggregate gain f0r May being 20,698,000

lbs., but the holdings on June; 1 were

only 247,767,000 lbs., against 320,173,000

lbs. a year earlier. Early large hog re-

ceipts were followed by much smaller of-

ferings, and the week's supplies fell off

materially because of the decline. in

prices. Saturday’s sales ranged at $8.15

608.45 f0r heavy packing hogs and at

$8..506_1)8.75 for the better class of hogs

With one sale at $8.80. The top a week

earlier was $9. Pigs closed at $6.80@

8.50 and stags at $8.70@9.10.



Sheep and lambs furnish much the most

sensational fluctuations in prices of the

several live stock markets, last week

starting off with a plump. drop of half a.

dollar per 100 lbs. in fed lambs of last

year, as well as in spring IambS, the very

best class of each included. Further

sharp breaks in prices for everything in

the sheep and lamb lines took place, and

it was on the whole the worst .week ex-

perienced by sellers in a long time. This

was due to greatly increased receipts here

and at other western and eastern mar-

kets, 'with spring lambs showing up in

liberal numbers, including heavy supplies

shipped from Louisville direct to Chicago

packing plants. The week closed $12560

$1.50 per 100 lbs. lower for spring lamb‘S

than a week earlier, with other live mut-

tons off $1601.50. Springs sold at $5.50@

7.50; fed lambs at $4.35@6.75: Yearlings

at $5.50676.35; wethers at $4.50605.50; ewes

at $2604.60 and bucks at $3.25@3.75. Feed-

er lambs were wanted at $4.75@5.50.

Prospects look pccr for the near future

unless receipts fall off a good deal. ’





Horses were in restricted general de-

mand last week. with medium-priced

drafters most frequently called for. and

prices were weak for the poorer animals.

After TueSday.out-of-town buyers were

few, and speculators did a large share 'of

the buying, mostly at lower values.

cheaper horses sold on the basis of $85





@100 per head. with the best heavy draft- -





ers quoted at 5330060350. Good to choice

draft horses Sold around 3523560295, and

little chunks went as low as $185. Driv-

ers were worth $125@200.





 

   

 





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stronger, with fat steers a dime higherfi;

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a year;

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.In. the. first edition the, Detroit Live

Stock ‘Markets are reports of islet week;

all otherl‘markets" are right up to date.

Thursday’s “Detroit Live Stock markets

are given in the last edition. The first

edition is mailed Thmsday, the, last edi-

tlon Friday morning. “The first edition is

mailedto those who care more to get the

paper early than they dofor Thursday's

Detijoithive Stock markepreport. You

mayhave‘any edition "desired: Subscrib-

ers may change from one edition to an:

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.bETROIT LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Thursday's Market.

June 19. 1913.





Cattle. .

625. Good dry-fed steady;





,6@50c lower.

.Ex’tra dry-fed steers and





i. Bionic“.

Iii!

;. a quote:





cite”; .60; steers and heifers,

«IL 150 1:3, '57.75@8.15; do. 800 to 1000,





573‘; mu (tears and heifers that are

fit. on to 1000, $6@7.25; do. 500 to 700,

$565.75; choice fat cows, $6.50@7; good

do., $5.50@6; common cows, $5@5.25; can~

net‘s, $3.75@4.25; choice heavy bulls, $6.50

@7; fair to good bolognas, bulls, $5.75@

6.25; stock bulls, $5695.50; choice feeding

steers, 800 to 1000, $7@7.50; fair do., 800

to 1000, $6@6.75; choice stockers. 500 to

700, $6@7; fair do., 500 to 700, $5.50@6;





Stock heifers, $5@5.50; milkers, large,

young, medium age, $55@75; common do.

$35@50. ,





Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 2

cows av 1150 at $6.50; to Breitenbeck 14

steers av 1030 at $8, 6 cows av 910- at $6;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 3 cows av 910 at

$4.35, 3 do av 757 at $4.25; to Sullivan P.

Co. 3 bulls av 927 at $6, 4 butchers av

890 at $6, 3 canners av 897 at $4.50; to

Allington 12 Stockers av 425 at $6.25;

to VVyneSS 3 cows av 1013 at $5.85; to

Kamman. B. Co. 13 steers av 1004 at

$8.10, 6 cows and bulls av 910 at $5.85,

2 steers av 850 at $7.50; to Hammond, S.

& Co. 1 cow weighing 980 at $5.25, 2 do

av 1065 at $5.75, 1 bull weighing 770 at

$6; to Thompson Bros. 2 cows av 815 at

$4.35. ’



Bresnahan sold Gerisch‘Market Co. 21

steers av 1250 at $8.60.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Bresnahan 21

steers av 1250 at $8.50; to sullivan P.

Co. 3 do av 970 at $7, 2 cows av 760 at

$4.50, 5 do av 1070 at $6.50, 4 Steers av

865 at $7.75, 14 cows av 1037 at $6, 1 bull

weighing 1100 at $6.75, 1 do weighing 900

at $6.25, 2 cows av 1155 at $7, 1 bull

weighing 1050 at $6.50; to Davenport 11

stockers av 535 at $6, 11 do av 727 at

$6.25, 1 bull weighing 540 at $6; to New-

ton B. Co. 33 steers av 1030 at $8.25, 1

cow weighing 1250 at $7. 2 do av 830 at

$5.50, 2 do av 970 at $5.50, 5 do av 1118

at $6.25, 6 steers av 905 at $7.25, 12 do

av 1045 at $8, 4 do av 847 at $7.50, 1 cow

Weighing 830 at $5.50, 2 do av 1010 at

$6.50, 6 do ‘av 890 at $5, 7 heifers av 600

at $6, 16 steers av 1275 at $8.50; to Un-

derhill 14 feeders av 805 at $7.50; to

Parker, W. & Co. 21 steers av 871 at

$7.50; to Bresnahan 8 cows av 910 at

$5.10, 11 stockers av 713 at $6.65; to

Breitenbeck 4 steers av 1070 at,$7.65, 11

cows av 943 at $5.85, 20 butchers av 935

at $7.75; to Mich. B. Co. 7 do av 644 at

$6, 4 cows av 947 at, $5.25. 4 butchers

av 795 at $7, 1 cow weighing 910 at $5.50.

3 do av 1013 at $6.50.



Spicer & R. sold Kull 22 steers av 887

at $8.50; to Snow 14 stockers av 553 at

$6.75; to Mich. B. Co. 1 cow weighing

950 at $5.75, 1 bull weighing 1010 at $6.50,

1 do weighing 1000 at $6.50; to Sullivan 1".

Co. 6 butchers av 861 at $7.25, 3 do av

970 at $6.25. 1 cow weighing 760 at $4.50.

20 steers av 983 at $8.50. 20 do av 995 at

$8.35; to Kull 2 cows av 960 at $5.50, 2

heiferslav 680 at $6.75: to Newton B. Co.

9 steers av 1103 at $8, 20 do av 1002 at

$8.35. 20 do av 1057 at $8.50; to Sullivan

P. 00. 4 cows av 915 at $5.50, 2 do av

1160 at $5, 3 do av 1066 at $6, 4 butchers

av 800 at $7, 2 cows av 1250 at $6.75; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 15 butchers av 835

at $7.25, 1 cow weighing 1100 at $6.50,

2 bulls av 775 at $6, 1 do weighing 1730

at $7, 4 do av 1002 at $6.50, 3 butchers

av 757 at $6, 5 do av 736 at $6. 5 can-

ners av 856 at $4.50; to Mason B. Co.

3 steers av 1110 at $8.25.



Haley & M. sold Newton B. Co. 8 cows

av 1025 at $6.50, 10 steers av 1152 at

$8.10; to Sullivan P. Co. 2 bulls av 875 at

$6.60, 2 cows av '855 at $5.25; to Newton

B. CO. 3 steers av 800 at $7; to Underhill

4 feeders av 755 at $7.35, 1 do weighing

750 at $7.25; to Sullivan P. Co, 2 bulls

av 1105 at $6.75, 2 do av 865 at $5.25, 6

cows av 1016 at $6.25; to Bresnahan 5

heifers av 540 at $6; to Snow 4 stockers

av 600 at $6.75; to Mich. B. Co. 4 cows

av 950 at $6.10, 4 heifers av 760 at $7, 8

cows av 912 at $6, 3 steers av 903 at

$7.50; to Snow 11 stockers av'493 at

$5.90, 9 do av 480 at $6.20; to Mich. B.

Co. 3 steers av 920 at $7.50. 2 do av 965

at $7.50. 6 butchers- av 808 at $6.10, 5

do av 882 at $6; to Rattkowsky 5 cows

av 1004 at $6.10: to Sullivan P. Co. 1 bull

weighing 1430 at $6.60; to Lowenstein 11

stockers av 516 at $6.30, 11 do av 553 at

$6.25; to Applebaum 7 cows av 731 at

5.85.

$ Sandal] sold Mich. B. Co. 1 bull weigh-

ing 1200 at $6.75. ‘



Young sold same 1 do weighing 1550 at

$6.50, 2 cows av 1035 at $5, 3 steers av

800 at $7. '



Johnson sold Bresnahan 6 cows av 780

at $4.25, 11 heifers av 645 at $6.30.



Sandall sold Newton B. Co. 7 butchers

av 736 at $6.25.



Wills sold same 9 butchers av 727 at

$7, 2 eanners av 680 at $3.50, 10 butchers

av 554 at $5.25.



AllingtOn sold Jackson 40 stockers av

570 at $6.50. 4 cows av 912 at $5.75.



Sandall sold Weeks 15 stockers av 572

at $6.25. ‘



Veal Calves.





Receipts, 1171. I Market steady. Best,

$10®10.50; others, $7@9.50.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Parker, W. &





4 av 160" at $10.50; _ .

-Co‘. 12'a'v155 at $10.25, 2 av 160 at $10,





 





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nan-ms rsTTHE FIRST‘E‘DITICN." “‘Co.' 5 TN 145 'at '310; 1 ' weighing 190 at .





$10.50, 5 av 160, at $10.50. 8 av 130 at

$9.50; to Kull 10 av 177.at $9.85; to Goose

to Hammond, S. ’&





Ziav 145 at $10.25;'to Parker, W. & Co.





:12 av 140 at $10, 2 av.145 at $10.25; to

Sullivan P. Co. ‘17 av 120 at $10.25, 9 ‘av





140 at $9.50, 20 av 145 at $10, 2_av 185

at‘ $10.50, 2 av 125 at $9,.1 weighing 110

at $9. . , , p .



Roe Com. Co. sold Rattkowsky 1 weigh-

ing 170 at $9, 3 av 250 at $7, 5 av 125

at $9, 3 av 120 at $9.50; to Thompson

Bras, 5 av 160 at $7, 12 av 150 at $9.25;

to Hammond S. & Co. 2 av 135 at $8, 11

av 160 at $10, 34 av 150 at $10; to Ratt-

kowsky 1 weighing 170 at $8. °



Wills sold Newton B. Co. 15 av 150 at

$10, 6 av 125 at $7.50.



Weeks Bros. sold Applebaum 19 av

135 at $9.65.



Sandall sold Parker, W. & Co. 20 av

140 at $9.25.



Spicer & R. sold Goose 10 av 150 at

$10.25; to Applebaum 3 av 120 at $9, 1

weighing 240 at $7, 3 av 130 at $9.75; to

Goose 9 av 140 at $9.25; to Hammond, S.

& Co. 1 weighing 350 at $7, 2 av 150 at

$8.50, 4 av 200 at $10.50.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co.

9'av 160 at $10.25, 10 av 178 at $10, 3

av 170 at $10; to Mich. B. Co. 22 av 160

at $10, 3 av 180 at $10; to Applebaum 2

av 145 at $9, 1 weighing 160 at $10.50; to

J. Goose 12 av 145 at $10, 5 av 160 at

$8: to D. Goose 5 av 155 at $9, 14 av 160

at $10.25. ~



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts, 1993. Market 50@750 lower

than last Thursday. Best spring lambs,

$7.50@8; fair to good lambs, $6@6.50;

light to common lambs, $5(a«6;"yearlings.

$6@6.50; fair to good sheep, $4@4.25; culls

and common, $2.50@3.



Roe COm. Co. sold Rattkowsky 2 sheep

av 100 at $4; to --Barlage 6 spring lambs

av 60 at $8, 6 sheep av 115 at $4, 3 do av

125 at $4, 5 spring lambs av 55 at $8, 19

sheep av 100 at $4. 5 spring lambs av 54

at $8, 7 sheep av 90 at $3.50.



Bishop, B. H. sold Sullivan P. CO.

44 Sheep av 85 at $4.75, '7 spring lambs

av 60 at $8.25, 4 do av 62 at $8, 50 do av

63 at $7.50, 38 yearlings av 85 at $6, 5

lambs av 58 at $4; to Parker, W. & Co.

4 sheep av 130 at $4.50. 27 yearlings av

'85 at $6.50; to Davenport 12 sheep av

110 at $4.25, 14 do av 115 at $4.50; to Kull

6 yearlings av 90 at $7, 8 do av 80 at

$6.50; to Davenport 11 sheep av 100 at

$4.25; to Barlage 14 do av 90 at $2.50; to

Mich. B. Co. 32 do av 105 at $4.35. 20

do av 100 at $4.25, 9 spring lambs av 50

at $7.10, 9 do av 55 at $7.10, 14 sheep av

110 at $4.35; to Parluge 18 do av 85 at

$4, 18 spring lambs av 50 at $7.25. 12

sheep av 68 at $4.



Haley & M. sold Mich. B. Co. 13 spring

lambs av 55 at $7.50, 24 sheep av 110 at

$4, 25 do av 120 at $4, 12 lambs av 62 at

$7.50, 19 spring lambs av 70 at $8.



Sandal], sold Mich. B. Co. 36 Fheep 3V

100 at $4.35, 20 lambs ax 60 at $7.75.





Hogs.



Receipts, 4952. None sold up to noon;

packers bidding $8.60, sellers holding for

no more.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 2700 av 180 at $8.65. 1



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co. 530

av 200 at $8.65.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co, 580

av 175 at $8.65.

$8S;;1gicer & R. sold same 840 av 185 at





Friday's Market.

June 20, 1913.





Cattle.

Receipts this week, 1904; last week,

1387; market dull at Thursday’s prices.





\l'e quote:: -Best dry-fed steers and

heifers, $8(ri28.50; steers and heifers, 1000

to 1200, $8598.50; do. 800 to 1000, $7.75@8;

grass steers and heifers that are fat,

800 to 1000, $7.25@7.75; do. 500 to 700.

$5.75@7; choice fat cows, $6.25@6.50; good

do., $550606; common cows, $5@5.25;

manners, $3,50@4.25; choice heavy bulls,

$6.756p7; fair to good bologna bulls, $6.25

(9116.50; stock bulls, $56136; choice feeding

steers, 800 to 1000, $7697.25; fair do., 800

to 1000, $675517; choice stockers. 500 to

700, $6.25@6.90; fair do., 500 to 700, $661)

6.25; stOr-k heifers, $5595.75; milkers, large

young, medium age, $60@75; common do.,

$35@50.



Veal Calves.



Receipts this week, 1297; last week,

1128. Market slow at Thursday’s prices.

Best, $10@10.25; others, $7@9.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts this week, 2374; last week,

2616. Market dull at Thursday's priceS.

Best spring lambs, $7.50@8; fair do., $5.50

51.6.50; light to common lambs, $4.50@5;

yearlings, $5.50fi»6.50; fair to good sheep,

$::.75@4.25; culls and common, $2.25@3.



Hogs,



Receipts this week, 6170; last week,

6265; market 10c higher. Range of prices;

Light to good butchers, $8.75; pigs, $8.75;

mixed, $8.705v8.75; stags one-third off.





 





 





There is a growing demand in the Chi-

cago market for grazing flocks of lambs

to ship to Michigan, and in a number «if

instances intending buyers of feeding

cattle who arrived in that city changed

their minds on account of the dearness

of cattle of the feeder class and substi—

tuted lambs, prices ranging from $5695.50

per 100 lbs. Thus far, however, lambs of

this class have not been offered particu-

larly freely.





Potatoes of the crop of 1912 have been

Sold in the Chicago market quite recently

as low as 161,41 cents per bushel. They

were white Burbanks grown in Minne-

sota, and the same kind .of potatoes

brought from $1 to $1.25 a bushel a. year

ago. New potatoes sold on the Chicago

market recently for 80 to 90 cents a

bushel. The 1912 crop of potatoes was

the largest ever raised in the United

States, aggregating 421,000,000 bushels,

and it-is said that farmers who have

supplies still left are going to feed .them

to stock. 1





 





 





 





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CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.__





Advice thrOugh this department is free

to our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address or

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a. reply that

has been made to someone else. When

reply by mail is requested, it becomes

private. practice, and a fee of $1.00 must

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Bruised Brisket—My Durham cow came

fresh May 2, had milk fever next day;

applied air treatment, had her on foot

11/2 hours later, then she seemed all right.

Now she has a large bunch on breast

which is not very soft and I would like

to know what to apply. A. N. S., Lake

Odessa, Mich—If the swelling fluctuates

on pressure, open it up freely to allow

effusion to escape, then inject one part

tincture iodine and eight parts water

once a day. This swelling is no dOubt

the result of a bruise. .



Indigestion—I have a calf two months

old that was doing fine until a few days

ago when his appetite failed him and he

(‘Cmmenced to breathe fast. His eyes

are dull, coat rough and I might say I

have been feeding him skim—milk which

is sometimes sour. J. D. Q., Carsonville,

Mich—Give your calf 20 grs. salicylic acid

and a teaspoonfu! of bicarbonate soda.

with each feed of skim-milk three or

four times a day; but. first of all, give



or 3 has. of sulphate magnesia as a

drench to clean out the stomach and

bowels.



Feeding too Much Corn—I have a sow

with eight pig; six weeks old, four black

and four white ones. \K'hen they were

three weeks old the White ones began to

drop their backs down and squeal, but

the black ones are well. They all eat

heartily, seem to grow rapidly, and I am

feeding them corn. but they fail to drink

as much as I think they should. A. G.

V. H., Nirvana, Mich—Feed them ground

oats, instead of corn and add a little

baking soda and ginger to their food

supply and they will soon get all right.



Nervousncss—--Cracked Heels—I have a

12-year-old more that is extremely ner-

vous, more so than usual when in heat.

ls inclined to urinate every time she

hears water running. and she seems to

come in heat too frequently. She is well

fed, but does not lay on flesh. \‘Vould

breeding her overcome this trouble andi





‘make her less" nervous?





11—703





is tr0ubled with cracked heels. R. G. B.,

Coloma, Mich—Either breed your mare

or have her spayed. Apply one part ox-

ide of zinc and three parts vaseline to

sore heels twice a day.



Eczema—Our local Vet. tells me that

my mare has eczema which causesher

to scratch and bite herself. The little

pimples on body never suppurate. L. D.,

Bangor, Mich—Give your mare a des-

sertspoonful of Donovan’s solution at _a.

dose in. feed three times a day. Gram

and grass is the best food f0r her; also

dissolve 14 lb. borate of soda and 2 ozs.

of carbolic acid in a gallon of water and

wet itchy parts of body once or thce 3

da .



Bacterial Infection—I have a colt three

weeks old which appeared to be normal

for a few days after birth, but had rath-

er large joints, especially hocks. This

colt did not seem to gain, appears dull,

rather languid and disinclined to remain

standing. Most of the trouble appears

to be in hock, stifle and back. The mare

has not worked 'since she foaled. L. C.

K., Stanton, Mich—This colt was perhaps

infected at birth or very soon afterwards

and the infection perhaps carried into

body through navel cord. Apply one part

iodine and 30 parts fresh lard to swollen

joints three times a week. Give it 3 drs.

of salol, 2 grs. of quinine and one one

hundred and twentieth of a grain of

strychnine at a dose four times a day.

The mare should be well fed and the colt

kept out on pasture, except during storms.



Indigestion—Flatulent Colic. I have a.

horse that has been in an unthriftycon-

(lition all this year, and day before yes-

terday he had an attack of acute indi-

gestion and colic. I gave him salts, soda

and ginger; I also give him linseed oil

and turpentine. He seemed to recover,

but took sick the day following. I would

like to know what to do with him. F.

\\'. C., Caro, Mich—Give your horse 1,1?

oz. fluid extract gentian, 1/3 oz. fluid ex-

tract ginger and 1,42 oz. Fowler's solution

at a dose in feed two or three times a.

day. Change his feed and exercise him

daily.



Tumor on Brisket—l have a mare that

has a growth between fore legs and an-

other situated between fifth and sixth

rib. This mare has been pulling snags

and I would like to have her cured. J.

M., Omena, Mich—The bunch on brisket

should be cut off, then apply one part

iolloi‘orm and 15 parts boracic acid to

sores two or three times a day.



Chronic Cough.—-Nearly all my cows,

also some of my young cattle commenced

to cough last winter and have kept it up

ever since. I am puzzled to know what





 





caused it or how to control it. .I. W. K.,

Erie, Mich—Mix together equal parts

powdered licorice, powdered nitrate of





potash, ground ginger and muriate am-

monia. and give a tablespoonful at a dose

n damp feed night and morning.





 





 





 





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There was something strangely pleasing

About cultivating corn

As the farmers used to do it

Round the place where I was born.

I remember that we started

Soon as we could “see the rows,"

And the corn-hills that we covered

We would dig out with bare toes.





With the lines across one shoulder,_

Or held up by sturdy hips,



We would walk between the handles

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In between the hills, then outward;

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\Ve would stoop or stop to pull it,

That it might not go to seed.





Sometimes we would guide the shovels

Past a corn-hill with one hip

VVhlle we placed a gentle pressure

On one line, to guide “old Jipl’

But ere long the team would follow

That green row of corn it saw,

Heeding faithfully our wishes

When we called out, “Gee!” or “Haw!”





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While they cultivate; and they

Raise as much corn to the acre

As the best men of my day.

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And I’m thankful, too, God knows;

Still, I’d like to just uncover

One more corn—hill with my toes.





THE RUNAWAY BOY.





 





BY EMMA P SEABU'RY.





Tom lay under the great spreading

maple, reading intently. The horse, hitch-

ed to the cultivator, was turned so he

could munch the lush grass, and the cul-

tivator was not cultivating



His father came upon the Scene and,

regarding him a moment with strong dis-

approval, burst out in angry invcctive:

“You lazy, good for nothing boy, what

are you doing here? You can get out of

this as soon as you like. If you won’t

work, you can’t eat. I am tired of coax-

ing, and scolding. and driving."



"But, Father, Minnie just brought the

mail, and- I was looking over the new

school books. It is so hot, and my head

aches!”



"Yes, always some excuse.” he said in

a mollified tone. Secret-1y he was proud

that his children led all others at school.

"I am not so sure that you will go to

school this winter, unless you do very

differently from what you have, so far.

Nobody would ever have made me be-

lieve that a son of mine could be a shirk,

and tell me a lie.” He glanced at the

books doubtfully.



Tom sprung to his feet, and his eyes

flashed anger and defiance. “I never lied

to you in my life, Sir. You will live to

rue the day you ever dared to spcak to

me as you have, as if I were a dog or a

slave.”



He flung the books on the grass, fast-

ened the traces, turned the horse around

and strode after it, leaving his father

more amazed at this hot rebellion than

anything that had ever happened in all

his experience. He smiled at the spirit:

of the boy, and was secretly proud of it.



The warm afternoon sun filtered

through the trees, the insects droned, an

Oriole flashed from a bough, the wind

lifted the branches lightly; it was an at-

ternoon for somnolcncc and not for labor,

he knew. He picked up the books and

satiSficd himself they were not dime nov-

els, then walked away with a troubled

look.



Tom was not like his other children; he

loved to dream, rather than to work, to

lie under the trees with a book better

than the arduous toil of the farm. But

he remembered that when the carriage

barn had been struck by lightning it was

Tom who saved the horses and carriages,

and not his faithf Edward.



Hc quarreled with all family traditions;

he was an alien to the soil. If he had

understood, he would have said, “He is a

poet and a dreamer and he shall have

his chance to develop where he belongs.”

But he was an old-fashioned father; and

he did not understand.



Tom’s heart was hot within him. He

was always warring with his father and

his autocracy against his strong individ-

uality. ' He rebelled against his injustice,

and never more bitterly than this after-

noon. He resolved he would stand it no

longer. He would run away, and make

his fortune. He would go that very

night, he knew not where; he would go,

he knew not what he could do, but. go he

would, somewhere, anywhere, to free





himself from this hat/éful yoke. He call-





ed himself a. serf and 'a' slave, and he

grew hotter and hotter the more he brood-

ed over his fettered soul.



When he went to the house at sun-

down it seemed to him the place had

never seemed so beautiful. Much of his

own love of beauty_had been inherited

from his father, who .had come as a

pioneer, many years ago, and cleared the

land, prospered by hard work, and had





(made his broad acres like a garden, and





beautiful with trees, vines, and flowers.

It was a fine old-fashioned homestead.

and Tom was proud of its plenty and its

hospitality, and he knew that even love

was not withheld from it and the group

of brothers and sisters.



The good supper had never tasted so

good. The moonlight was never so be-

witching. He adored his gentle mother,

and when she put her arm around him

and said, “I am afraid you are too tired

my dear,” he longed to tell her his re-

solve. This was his last evening at-home,

and with her, and he could not speak.



Farm life forty years ago was very

different from that of today. But there

were plenty of books, and leisure to en-

joy them, and home life and quiet.



Tom went to his room after supper and

packed up a bundle in an old carpet-bag

satchel he found in the garret. It seemed

very hard to leave his keepsakes and

books behfnd, and even his best clothes,

but it must be done.



\Vhen no one was looking he carried it

down and hid it under the bed in the

parlor bedroom. Every parlor had a bed-

room, those days, and was a place sacred

to company, and only opened for visitors.

It was safe there—unless, and his heart

beat fast, unexpected visitors came, which

was not unusual. But he risked it.



He was silent and preoccupied. He

watched all the goings and comings, as

he lay in the hammock. “'hen they saw

him again he would be a man, perhaps a

rich man, come home to help father and

mother, in their old age. But tears came

to his eyes now and then. \Vould he look

like the tramps who came to his father’s

house?



lie had a few dollars; he did not know

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father needed‘the lesson, and' he would go.



When he kissed his mother goodnight

he squeezed her, swung her around. and

kissed her again.



“Are you not feeling well, Tom?" she

asked anxiously. ‘



“All right,” he shouted half way up

the stairs. He could not trust himself to

say any more. He knew he should break

down. He did hate to leave his mother.

He was her baby, and her pet, and he

got the very best of everything. She

loved and understood him.



He had made up his mind not to sleep

a wink, and to slip out as soon as the

houSe was still. He shared the room with

Ned, and Ned was safe, but it was next

to his mother's room, and what if she





should wake and beg him to stay.





He was troubled by many misgivings,

haunted by many fears, for he was a.

nervous, timid boy. His heart was sore;

he was outraged by injustice. The hot

tears coursed down his checks at his ut-

ter loneliness and the thought of being

adrift in the world tomorrow. He was

most desolate and unhappy.



The first thing he knew the sun was

streaming in at his, window. His father

was by the bed saying, “Come boys, time

to get up! Get the chores done quickly

and I think we will go to town to the

circus this afternoon. I guess the sun

was too hot for you, Tom; you have been

moaning and talking in your sleep all

night. Get braced up ready for school

next month. The circus will settle all

scores for us Tom, won’t it?”



He went out of the room chuckling,

and Tom sat up in bed, astonished, daz-

ed,'sorry, glad, happy, shamefaced. He

stole out while they were at breakfast

and carried up the satchel, dumping the

contents into his old oak chest, and hid-

ing it in the garret again. And not until

he was a man did he tell how he had

planned to run away, and slept all night,

forgetting his troubles.



He decided, then and there, that it

was better to go to the circus, and live

at home, and that it was much the best

policy to try a little harder to do his

whole duty and share the work than he

ever had before.





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THE CRUELTY OF POISONING.





 





BY HATTIE WASHBURN.





A little stream meanderéd across a pas-

ture, murmuring softly and stealing shyly

from pool to pool along its course, while

on its banks the marks of high water

showed that but recently the modest riv-

ulet had been a. raging torrent. Just be-

low a, footbridge that spanned the stream

a pool had been formed by the force of

rushing water. Above it graceful willows

leaned, and in the shallow poo], sparingly

fed by the diminished stream, floated the

IiftIOSS form of a grackle, with wings

outspread.



\Vell might one fancy him a suicidal

bird who, with the fortitude of despair,

had drowned himself in water so shallow

that by standing upright he could have

held his glossy head safely above the

surface. But in a nearby grove what

once, had been, happy biid home, with

loving male an~ 1., IllItSS lledglings in the

nest, belied all .313 on fUl. a suicidal

death, did birds willfully destroy them-

selves. And in a nearby field lay strewn

the damning evidence of the wanton

cruelty of the grackle’s untimely death.

Many other birds, with homes in the

vicinity of the corn i‘cld where the poi-

soned grain was strewn, had shared the

gracklc’s fate. He alone had reached the

crystal pool and, vainly trying to slake

an anguishing thirst, had died in that

romantic spot beneath the screening

willows.



The great inroads gophers often make

in newly planted corn fields may justify

the farmer in resorting to desperate meas—

ures, but he can never be justified in

strcwing poison where birds may get it.

There may be a question of the justice

of kllling, by that most cruel method, in-

nocent creatures which but follow the

characteristic food habits of their kind,

however harmful to human interests those

habits may be, but we will wave that

question. Surely the most humane meth-

od of protecting the corn fields is that

of strewing food along the margins to

feed the rodents until they are surfeited,

but when the fields are large this is im-

practical and often impossible. The gun

and the: snare, when there is someone

with time to use them, are most effec-

tive, as then only the offenders suffer.



Though few farmers may realize it,

they can never afford to sacrifice the life

of an insect-eating bird on the chance of

destroying harmful rodents. Millions of





 

 

 





birds have been destroyed, either will-

fully or thoughtlessly, by those who,

blinded by their own interests, fancied

they were benefiting themselves thereby.

Now. with their feathered protectors so

greatly reduced, the i'tll‘m‘il‘ of today is

paying a heavier tax to his insect ene-

mies than to the government under which

he lives.



There is a wanton cruelly in killing by

means of poison that should be revolting

to every human being, no matter 110W

harmful the victim may be. The chance,

very rarely avoidable, of the poison be-

ing taken by another creature than the

one for which it was intended, greatly

increases the wrong.



The writer’s first sorrow which left its

mark on my memory was that for a. pet

dog who ate the portion intended for a.

thieving fox. As, with tears coursing

down my cheeks, I watched my little dog

writhing in the agony of such a death,

my childish spirit was filled with such

revulsion against poisoning as I shall

never outlive.



The tragedy of accidental poisoning is

as old as history, and many of my read-

ers, because of it, may have felt the

keen barb of sorrow, even though it be

for nothing more than a cherished pet.

Let us not be the ones to perpetrate the

cruel practice of killing by poisoning, no

matter how dire our needs may seem

to be.





 





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Summer Cooking.





1TH the warm days of 'sum-



\‘K/ met the housekeeper confrdnts a.



problem of jaded capricious ap—



petites and lagging spirits in some, if not

all of the members of her family. _



Appetites change with the changing of

the seasons, and it is well for the house—

wife to bear this in mind and substitute

forthe heavy, heat-producing mods of

winter, the hot breads and soups, the ov-

er-abundance of meats and rich pastry,

a lighter diet and one more fitted to the

needs of the system.



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natural foods, in their uncooked state, as

possible. Besides giving a tone to the

System and supplying many needed ele-

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not weary of the sameness if a little care,





and thought is used in their selection.



Try some morning for breakfast, in-

Stead of the hot cereal and cream, a dish

of apples, radishes, figs and peanuts chop-

ped together. It is an ideal breakfast

dish, and the different foods blend so de-

lightfully that one finds it a mOst; happy

change at this time of year.



Cut out the hot puddings and pies if

you would keep-in good condition through

the summer months, and substitute cold

and frozen dainties instead. Prepare them

in the early morning. Ice creams, chilled

jellies, melons and fruit of all kinds are

Dre-eminently summer foods and cannot

be improved upon. A dish of stoned dates

and peanuts is an easy dessert, as is also

dates and cream, either whipped or plain;

and likewise, a slice or two of chilled

pineapple with a dash of sugar or salt,

as one prefers. The salt gives a. delicious

flavor and neutralizes the acid.



One cannot, especially in a large fam-

ily, do away with the hot dishes alto-

gether, for the taste of everyone must be

considered, and where one might get

along comfortably and well on a. diet of

fruits and raw vegetables another would

rebel and count himself ill used without

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to health and success, and an ,ideal home.

is happiness, coupled with a feeling of

satisfied contentment and well being. ‘



If John can thrive on a diet of milk and

eggs, that is no reason why you should

assume that Mary can do likewise. But

you can cut out, and substitute, here and

there and harm no one, '



Cold sliced meat with hot mealy pota-

toes, chilled cucumbers and lettuce. fol—

lowed by a generous slice bf melon or ice

cream ought to satisfy any reasonable

mortal on a hot day. Choose the cooler

days on which to serve cooked vegetables.

peas, beans, etc., with the hot meats, and

ten to one your family will not realize

they have been under any different re-

gime only as the health of each of them

will be better and more vigorous, and

you. busy housewife, will have gained

many hours in which to live and grow.





SAVING THE CANNED FRUIT.





 





BY ELLA E. ROCKWOOD.





This caption does not refer to frugality

in the use of fruit but to prevention of

loss by mold or fermentation. Each year

adds something to the housewife’s knowl-

edge along the line of bacterial activity

and the relation which that process bears

to the spoiling of our domestic stores

after they have been put into the cans,

sealed, and set away for winter use. The

thoroughness with which this work is

done in the commercial canneries proves

that every can of fruit should keep in

perfect condition until opened. If the

home product does not do this then

somewhere in. the process there is a flaw

and it is up to the housewife to study

cause and effect thus to avoid a direct

loss both ‘of time and money since every

quart represents a cash outlay or its

whether the fruit is grown at

ihome or prchased outright.



Probably everyone who attempts can-

ning at all understands that cans, covers

and rubbers must b‘e sterilized with boil-

ing water. Breakage will be avoided by

slipping the cans sidewise into hot water

and not pouring it directly inside. A good

way is to lay cans and covers in cold





water and bring gradually to the boiling

point.

expensive and there is danger in using

old ones which have become hardened

Occasionally a. rubber survives in good

condition but safety lies only in the pur-

chase of the beSt quality fresh every sea-

son.- Compared to the loss of a single

can of fruit the cost of a good rubber is

not to be considered.



Some fruits, cherries, for example, are

easy keepe1s. \\ 1th others, like straw-

berries, every precaution must be ob-

served. Whether cooking is done in an

open veSSel or after the cans are filled

there is no question but that it must be

thorough. Complete sterilization to the





innermost section 0f each separate piece ‘





is essential. A broad pan for open cook-

ing is better than a narrow, deep one.

since it better prevents crushing of the

fruit while boiling. After filling to the

running-over point and sealing, the cans

may have a coating of melted paraffin

applied over the top parts as an extra.

precaution. This is best accomplished

after they have become cold and the

covers tightened for the last time. Any

can from which the liquid oozes when it

is inverted must be re-sealed, or the

contents will surely spoil. This is a final





 





test. Sound fruit put up according to

these instructions will keep in perfect

condition.



HOW I MADE A COOK-BOOKI.





11Y CHARLOTTE BIRD.



Although I have never in my life had

any call to cook for more than one or

two people, I have always had a decided

tarte for preparing dainty things for the

‘zmle. Consequently, 11 goad rec'pe I have

never willingly let pass by.

Is that I have an impressive collection

of cook-books, from mere pamphlets to

real books. But my very best recipes, or

rather, the hardest ones for me to lay

my hands on at any given moment, Were

those clipped out of papers or scribbled

down on a. piece of paper. These were

in eon.~:taiit danger of being lost. As it

was to insure safety the edges of" my

standby cook-books were .written full.



SO, one day coming across an old. well-

bound congressional report, I determined

to make it a safe depository for my loose

recipes. I cut out a lot of the leaves so

that with the extra material pasted into

the book, it would not be sweiled out of

shape. Then I sorted over my recipes

and rejected all duplicates.



Then the book space was divided into

sections and labeled in cook—book fashion:

"$011118," "Fish," “Shellfish," “Vegeta—

bles,” “Bread.” “Pastry,” etc. From my

clippings I had little introductory rules

for these different classes of food and

tltese I pasted in first. Then I d.vided

my recipes under each head according

to alphabetical order and pasted them

into the book. At the end I left space

for recipes still to be obtained.



I threw out all recipes too complex for

ordinary family use and all of which I

found more expensive than seemed nec-

essary. For ordinary use there are few

better cakes than the common one-egg

cake, provided, of courSe, that it is well

made. Then, using it as a basis, one

can vary it by putting in chooolate, or

fruit, or cocoanut, or ordinary nutmeats,

or more than one of these additions, and

thus have a new kind of cake each time.

So what was the use of cluttering up

good :pace in my book by including reci-

pes Calling for eight or ten eggs when

eggs are forty cents a. dozen? So, re-

taining only the recipe for “Angel Food,”

01‘ “Sunshine Cake,” a good wedding

cake and one or two others, I threw the

rest in the waste basket.



But the newer desirable recipes, like

mock mincemeat from green tomatoes,

carrot pudding, pumpkin butter, I re-

tained. beCause I do not find them in

the older cook-books. And under my

"Salads." and “Croquettes,” and even

under my "Soups,” were great improve-

ments over the recipe books of a genera—

tion ago



There is a card index system being

worked out for the pieseivation of reci-

pes which is really superior to any book.

Put one must have the cards of a proper

size and shape and a box in which to

preserve them. The box would take up

space and be more or less awkward for

the mere uses of the ordinary housekeep-

ing. The book therefore seems simpler.





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Our Motto—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





 





THE JULY PROGRAMS.





 





State Lecturer’s Suggestions for First

' Meeting.



.Song, “Hail to the Harvest,” No. 124,

Grange Melodies. _



A new machine that interests me.



Recitation. '



Common

homes. .



Song, “Lightly Laugh and Gaily Sing,”

N0. 180, Grange Melodies.



A rural co-operative laundry.





inconveniences about farm





Reading, “Consumer—Producer.”

What qualifications should a rural

school teacher have? Discussion.





Roll call responded to by each member

giving his experience with or observation

of parcel post, or suggestion on its im-

provement.





WASHTENAW POMONA IN 1913.





 





Although no reports have appeared of

the work being‘undertaken by IVashte-

naw Pomona Grange, it has not been

idle. Instead, its plans were made in

good season for the year and it has had

three large and promising meetings. The

first was the biennial election, when it

returned C. H. Alexander to the master’s

chair and Mrs. B. D. Kelly to the sec-

retary’s. Mrs. C. E. Sperry was made

lecturer, and she, with the executive com-

mittee, immediately took steps to hold a





joint meeting with another Pomona as

recommended by Master Ketcham. This

was accomplished in March when Wayne

Pomona. met with us in a session at Yp-





attended, among them 30 from Lenawee.



The presence of so many guests was a

delight to Washtenaw,members, andthe

conferring of the fifth degree by the Len-

awee team was pronounced the finest

treat of its kind ever enjoyed by many

present. A class of more than 50 Were

thus initiated. At this meeting the pres-

ident of the Housewives’ League, of De-

troit, told the interesting story of the

effort women in her city are making for

obtaining food direct from producer to

consumer, every word of which was list-

ened to with intensest attention. An—

other topic which is particularly “live"

with us is that of the "County Farm

Man” method of promoting more profit-

able agriculture. A committee, appointed

to investigate and confer with the city

civic associations, reported favorably, but

the people in general who were present

apparently would have none of it. As

there was no opportunity then for a full

discussion, the lecturer announced that

she would plan to devote another meeting

to a further investigation of the matter.



In the meantime, the Corn Contest

committee had been perfecting its plans

for a bigger and better boys’ corn show

this year than ever. This is designed to

be held December 5—6, at Ann Arbor, and

will be the ninth annual event of a Sim-

ilar nature with the county Grange to

back it. The time seems to be near

when this undertaking can sustain itself

and continue its work of reaching farm

boys and, incidentally, improving the

corn of the county. Some of the best

corn now grown in the county dates its

introductory seed back to the early days

of this annual corn contest.



Perhaps the saddest blow that could

have come to Our Pomona came without

warning on the last Sabbath of March,

when Hon. John K. Campbell was “called

awa’.” First master of the Pomona when

it was reorganized, and for many, many

years lecturer of his home Grange, and

leader of his home community, he was

known and beloved as few are, regardless

of the much wider acquaintance and D0-

sitions of honor and trust which he oc-

cupied in state and national agricultural

and religious affairs. He had been a

welcome and prominent factor in our big

meeting a few days before his death. A

service in commemoration Of his great





:15) Pomona meeting at Chelsea, Septem-

er .~ »

The June meeting of Pomona. was a

delightful surprise—a. surprise in attend-

ance, cordiality and earnestness of the

further discussion of the ,“The County

Farm Man” idea. It was the first in a

lOng series that had met with Manchester

people and they made it a happy day in-

deed, Something like 125 came from all

parts of the county, and right royally

did the local Grange meet the occasion.

The general subject under discussion was

“Our County from the Farmer’s Stand-

point.” In the closed session this [took

the form of talking over various co—op-

erative plans and work in the Granges

represented. State Secretary Hutchins'

bill, now a law, regulating the organizing

of co—operative associations in the state,

was reported, and announcement was

made of the plans for organization of

county Grange co—operative associations

under direction of the executive commit-

tee of State Grange. At the open after-

noon session a short time was spent upon

"The Three Leading Crops of the Coun-

ty.” but no one had statistics to show

which crops really bring in the greatest

financial returns. One man judged them

to be hay, corn and hens; another, ap-

ples, corn and pigs, etc. On the topic,

"Three Greatest Needs of Our County,"

some interesting things were said. N.

W. Laird thought We needed more boys and

girls who were fitted to become leaders

in the great enterprises of the world; F.

G. Leeson, of Manchester, believed the

great present needs are silos, alfalfa and

warm weather, while Mrs. Osborn, of

Pittsfield, said We need a county farm

agent—one who will help farmers mar-

ket their crops to better advantage and

teach them how to grade and pack to

better purpose. She illustrated her re-

marks by experiences in her own mar-

keting of garden products in the city

markets.



All these discussions led up to the ad-

dress by Brother Jason XVoodman, new

county demonstrator or agent for Kala-

mazoo county. Mr. “roodman was en-

gaged for the Kalamazoo work by bank-

ers of that city, and he proceeded to

show why bankers are interested in pro-

moting better farming and why it is not

patronage, in his opinion. He pointed





creased, .rather ‘than kept up with the

general increase‘ in population of the

country, how farm products are going

onto the importing list, rather than the

exporting, and how farming is being done

by middle-aged and elderly men. He

showed how farms are losing grOund in

fertility—mot all farms, but many, some

of which are actually being abandoned.

He saidr “I have been asked, what





might a farm agent do in this county? In ‘





reply, I say I don’t know. I can’t tell.

I can tell you that in my own county of

Van Buren we are ready for such‘a man

but have not yet been able to get'one;





and I can tell you what I am trying to~





do in Kalamazoo county, and can tell you

how the idea came to be tried, for it is

still ,_ an experiment. I am not here to

advocate the county agent. He is an

experiment and we may abandon the

plan of having him altogether, or we may

multiply him, putting a farm demon-

strator in every township.”



In the course of more than an hour’s

talk, Mr. Woodman read from his note-

book one week’s record of work.

day he helped a Holland farmer prepare

his seedbed for alfalfa; another day he

spent with a farmer who knows how to

feed Jersey cows, learning all he could

himself of thismaster feeder; another

day he visited a master of a Grange to

help start him aright ,with his potatoes.

He will return there at time for spraying

and see that the spraying is properly

done, thereby insuring a much larger

yield. “No,” said he, “I am not teaching

him how to grow twice as many pota-

toes, but how to grow as many as he does

now on half as much ground with less

labor.” .



The closest attention was given to this

address and many were the expressions

of pleasure at the opportunity to hear a

man upon this question who is in posi-

tion to give the most practical and ac-

curate report of the working out of the

county plan. Pomona. Granges owe it to

the people of their counties to give them

opportunities to study this and other

questions aff eting the county welfare.



The Augu rally of this Pomona will

be at North Lake, when State Master

_Ketcham will be present. The Governor

is. inVlted and plans are on foot for the

kind of a picnic that North Lake knows

best how to make. JENNIE BUELL.





 





 





 





 





 





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Agricultural education, soil for

present trend in. . . .331 wood ashes

Agriculture, recent pro- toes, crops

gress in ............ 331 ground, 34;

Alfalfa heaves badly on up a

wet land ........... 602





after early potatoes. . .659

amount of lime for ..258





IN’DEX





FOR VOL. CXL.





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Farm Notes:—Preparing

alfalfa, 2;





depleted

58; germination test of

seed corn, alfalfa and

tile drains, eradicating





 





 





suminer pasture, 426;

sowmg rape with oats,





for pota- sowing red-top with

for low timothy, sand vetch in.

building Michigan agriculture,





soil, Stable manure for the

beans, cowpeas vs.

beans, crops' for muck

land, 459; building the





campaign in Allegan sundburrs, 91; stable concrete silo, buck-



county ............. 658 manure vs. fertilizer, wheat as a own for

campaign in Genesee why did the alfalfa, greennnanure, reason



county ............. . fail, 116; applying lime for failure of oats, 482;

in HillSdale county....362 to bean ground, CIOVer the potato blight, early

in Lenawee county....330 seeding failed, seed or late DIOWIIIE f0? D0-

inoculatin-g ........... 618 oats. best method of tatOeS, 514; the barn-

inoculating soil for....363 handling sandy field, yard problem, alfalfa

is it best to seed with using chicken manure, Oil heavy clay, eradi-





cating dandelions from





winter rye or oats..147 187; applying lime to _

more about in Osceola bean ground, what ail- lawns, 538; fertilizing

county ............. 458 ed the beans, the best corn in the _hill, sow-

method of applying mg alfalfa With wheat,





paSturing with cows.. 60

seeding in oats ........ 362





stable manure, the ma-





cutworms, the proper





in ' . wheat ,,,,,, 515 nure spreader a profit- depth to plow for

fligdbegtlrmethod of in- able investment, fer- corn, 562; land paster

oculating ........... 659 tilizer questions, plow- for beans and corn,

Another hired man’s- ing vs. disking corn concrete as a material

viewpoint ,,,,,,,,,, stubble for oats, pota- for granary floor, plant-





A renter’s experience..404

Automobile, hints for be-

ginners on care and





ing a stand





operation of ........ 634

place of the, on the

farm ................ 63





Bacteria, the friends of forage crop,





the farmer ..........

Barn, planning and build-

ing the farm ........ 329

Basement, how to keep

water out of

Beans, need of lime for.258

Book-keeping suggestions

tions for the farmer.362 and

Burdock, eradicating ...562





218 eradicating





treatment

scab,





to blight, 220; renew-





colver vs. substitutes,

growing mangels, 260;

sowing clover with a.

drill, sweet clover as a

falfa with oats, inocu-

lating for red clover,

sowing alfalfa on mus-

tard infested ground,





2.92; the formaldehyde





lime to wheat fields. of





ing treated seed corn,

582; applying fertilizer

to potatoes, rye as a

green manure crop for

potatoes, sand vetch

for forage and green

manure, sand vetch

vs. millet, plowing sod'

ground for the spring

crops, cowpeas vs.

sand vetch for green

manure, 634; seeding

alfalfa in wheat, crops

for green manure, 658;

fall VS. spring seeding

alfalfa, fertilizing





of alfalfa,





seeding al-





plantain,





for smut

applying





corn in the hill, 674.





- r -, -ro s..364 reseeding alfalfa, does



8&2];ng £33521? lacndl?,,. 2 the land need lime, Farm, investing farm

Commercial fertilizers fitting corn stubble for profits in the ........ 91

and manures, use of.404 :Drilng 22398. i?6?r(]]ess wltiat shatre is Droperzqg

. - the ar ey, . ; a a aques- or ren ing ......... .

Corncrop,improv1ng , tions, cowpeas as a labor problem ........ 221

Corn after sugar beets.427 cronfor green manure. land. the price of ...... 291

amount of moisture in.294 Seedlhg alfalfa, 364; management ......... 261



best fertilizer for .....514 fertilizer for beans: an- Fertilizer for oat hay

fertilizer on .......... 294 thracnose, I) l a n t 1 n g“ and clover .- ....... 42



planting the .......... 582 beans in hills vs. Fertility, maintaining

roots ................. 363 drills, amount of alfal- Without live stock...148





Cowpeas and soy beans.42

for green manure .....





Dandelion eradication

of ................... 635

how to kill ............ 675





in . ...... . ...........

Dynamite, loosening the

hardpan with ........ 261

Emmer vs. speltz, value

of winter ........... 514

Farm accounting vs.

profitable farming ..259

fertility. maintaining, 5‘8,

146, 219, 258, 537.





, volution of the

house 6 ' ......219 .ver,





sian fly,

rape to sow,

falfa where

killed.





ver, seeding

winter





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8 fa seed to sow, sowing

365 alfalfa with

amount of clover seed

to sow, destroying the

ground moles, when“)?



' ,- jn taste sow sand vetCi. ;

Dec-oratlon’ W Y g 218 the size of ventilating

flues for barn, the Hes-

amount of





an acid soil,

clover with a drill, the

best time to sow clo-





Foreign labor, a de-

fense of ............. 333

Good roads, an import-

ant factor in ........ 42

Ground moles .......... 458

destruction of ........ 483

Grand Rapids experiment

, association, the

Harrow. disk vs. cuta-459





clover,





sowing al- way ................

clover is Harrowing corn ....'....674



indications of Hay crop, cutting and

seeding curing the .......... 673

Haying problems ....... 674

Hay, making alfalfa....674



swoet clo- Highways, economical





rye for leveling of in spring.581





Inventory, the farmer's.148

Irrigation, pumping wat-



. er for ..... . ......... 675 Sparrows,

King drag, _making good





in Ohio

why grow..

. killing with

pOlsoned grain ..... 61 GS, 38;





______ 59 Feeders’ problems—Oil

meal vs, iiaxseed meal,

material for hog hous-

wheat as a.





...........





roads With .......... 45 Spring wheat and speltz grain ration for colts

Labor problem, from the for southern Mich...482 CU“ beans fOI‘ horses,

hired man’s stand— Stumps, rididing new 65; grain ration for

p-01nt ................ 515 land of ............. 635 fattening steers, 151'

how solved on one Swamp lands, our re- what to sow with rape-

Michigan farm ..... 61 claimed ............. 147 for sheep pasture

Land drainage, theory Tile draining, in hard- charcoal and ashes for

and practice of ..... 29 pan ........ 458, 563, 514 hogs. prediicins veal

Legumes, pure, cultures in quicksand ......... 538 on Skim-milk and

for inoculating ..... 293 observations on ...... 601 grain, 299; musty rye

Lillie farmstead notes, 563, questions about ...... 115 for hogs, seeding rape

602, 618, 635, 658, 674. Some problems in ..... 618 for Summer pasture,





Lime and where to get Tile drains,





it ................... 406 fall for ..





refuse from sugar fac- reasons for

tory ................. 34

Manure, extra value de—





rived by winter haul-





leveling . ..





amount of





fits of





should be laid apart at“





396; silage as a feed

for hogs, millet as a

horse feed, 410; grain

ration for fattening

ewes _on pasture, caus-

es of abortion in ewes,





........... 294

and bene-2





ing ................. 9o ends ....... . ........ 483 464i the cheapest grain

haul in winter ........ 35 drain work, making a ' mm)“ for horses, 465?

hauling in winter .....189 level for ........... 259 cull beans as ~ .3 hog

Michigan farms, a visit The average hired man.427 feed, other grams to

to some fine ......... 675 The employer and the feed with beans to

:61“th on low land ....... 582 employe ,,,,,,,,,,, 564 lI'OgS, SHFCUIenCy 1n

Mound spring, draining The farm labor liome...617 sows ration, the hog

a ................... 562 The hired hell) problem.617 p9“. problem, 436? 31‘

Muck land, draining.....458 Tile drains, ~ a practical falfa for. hog pasture,

first crop on .......... 186 home-made device is???“ ration for horses,

seeding to timothy....538 for leveling ........ 146 “ ' summer forage

Mulch, value of the ...... 90 leveling ............. . .514 $222: afnoé' i'gggfi’ay 5:53;

Mustard, destioying ..... 221 Timber. saVe the saw... 34 horses, 604; grain ra-





National corn show, the.188 Tomato foundation stock.

562





tion for pigs on rape,





Oats, seeding clover and securing ........... - -

alfalfa With ......... 515 Tractor engine, will a , fiofgttggmg, ”“10“ for

Painting on the farm...581 pay ................. 259 brgw’ers’w 0- feed Wet

Peas and oats, seeding Trees. beautifying the 'n i: gralinsi grtliw-

clover with ......... 482 farm by lilanting....458 inigl'kp §§8W1 on 5k ‘1“

Permanent pasture, seed- Vetch, spring SOWIi ...... 219 Feedii’i r e t'h t h

ing rye to .......... 562 Live Stock. beet: my r d g h as

Plant food, function of Alfalfa hOg pasture....660 in J“ 6 y 83119

three elements of...538 Animal mentality and the gbré'e'dih'g'é‘vééé """ 39





Plant nutrition, a ques-





rabies ...





--------- 518 Feed rack, a dandy... . .340





tion in ..............562 Barn remodeling a 5611- Fr - -

~ , .- . ies, eradication of the

mtg]: €109! insunng601 Beagralfoiggik andmcu'll 62 horse or stable ....... 679

culture, points in ...... 365 B Peantst1 f0rI sheep.....263 Hogtsi’onba;2301ng the ra-

growin , ractical ..... 513 ee 03 e, low to et - " """"

scab, gltaijity of ....... 674 a herd .......... 7.567 file fro”! eatmg salt-118

Potatoes, blighted as a hei‘d,dth§ fielation Of a auling m hOt weather

source of seed ....... 33 goo u to profit- ............. . ........... r.

, _ ~ r able ............ 4”” musty rye kill ......... 252

thneprglyilzneg 01116306353) Production, the evolu- overfeedmg before 5911'

fertilizer for .......... 427 tion 0f economic. - - - 57 ngt‘ ' '1 """" " '- """ 340

Power on the farm 294 Breeding crate ......... 518 DYE“? ica experience

Repairing and building draft horses in Mid" sa?tlt?or. ' ' ‘ I I . ' ' ‘ ' ; ' ' ' .191

for the future ...... 21 1ga“ ---------------- H """"

. ‘ herd, essential , orses,'cost of rals1ng..660

ngegggswfor permanenggs B in ........... 2633464 ggtggnggmfornmafrket- - 2133

"""" . rood sow management.191 * C p arm..

333235;: Dillinlortrv§526533o sow. the critical period vet“ and ”’9 hay ““638

he , ym for ................. 26 Hggole gift bfgt font-1; 64

...... sows, summe a. _ e, e e, W‘l

Rules, an fgw sugglesteg ment of . _ rm page-2620 kindness ... . . . . . . ..' 64

maria verage “re 598 Calf, feeding and care 0f Indigggverfiittrlie feefd4e2rs 638

"""" """""‘J nov....................- 0 ""H ’

Seed corn, grading, test-513 learning to drink ..... 486 Lamb crop feed f0r uni-

ng and shelling Calves, raising on sep- formity in .......... 519

sorting the ....... 35 aratof milk ........ 437 Lambs._green forage for.566

testing the ........... 291 Cattle, weight vs. meas- handling newly born.262

Seed oats. make a ger- urement ........... 298 management of early.298





mination test of. . . ..428

Shade tree problem, the





Silo. durability of the





and hogs vs. beans and



beets 63

...................... 362 Colt. rearing orphanHHGZO

Colts, wintering the....222 LambS. starting the....341





raising on cows’ milk.371

8 Lamb show at live stock

meeting





...........





lath and plaster.....482 Corn silage and cotton- Live stock, importance

evolutiOn tof ,t‘he, in seed for beef ......... 433 01’ palatability in fOOd



America ............ 481 Developing- pure—bred Or . . . n .............. 566

the lath and plastered.147 drafters ..: .......... 222 LIVe stock meeting, the





Soil. a more intensive Dual-purpose

use of the .......... 91



and fertilizer questions

634 for horses





.......................





fertility, do sugar beets

increase 6





......W 0





Ensilage and oil meal for

fattening steers .. ..-64 180, 191,





Ewes, feeding nursing..4!0

keep nursing. thrifty..660 Live stock the need of





cattle ,_,,190 ..................... , 94

Live stock news, 65. 95, 119,

252, 282, 354.

........ ...222 396, 433, _465, 487, 519,

543, 567, 587, 604. 639.





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